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Timmy Weekes is a young, good-natured soldier from London who joins Willie’s platoon at the beginning of 1917. Although he’s an Englishman, he quickly befriends Willie and the other Irish soldiers in the company. Timmy is a keen reader, and he brings several books with him to the front lines. Early in 1918, he dies in the same explosion that injures Willie.
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Timmy Weekes Character Timeline in A Long Long Way
The timeline below shows where the character Timmy Weekes appears in A Long Long Way. The colored dots and icons indicate which themes are associated with that appearance.
Chapter 16
...English, including the platoon’s new leader, Biggs. Willie befriends a young soldier from London named Timmy Weekes, who jokes that he and his six siblings are nicknamed the days of the...
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Chapter 17
...too far up the ridge. Biggs is killed by a flare, but Christy, Joe, and Timmy Weekes rejoin Willie an hour later. In the ruined village of Wytschaete at the top...
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Chapter 18
During the march, Willie jokes with Timmy Weekes that Dostoevsky would be frightened by their current circumstances. Then Willie, Timmy, and Joe...
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...A great number of soldiers fall, dead or wounded. Willie, Christy Moran, Joe Kielty, and Timmy Weekes successfully reach the allotted line and stop. A second wave of soldiers arrives behind...
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Chapter 21
...them to pull back instead. Joe Kielty stays behind to cover them. Christy, Willie, O’Hara, Timmy, and the other soldiers of their company run into the woods, where the attack eventually...
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Chapter 22
...sends Willie a letter telling him that the same explosion that injured him also killed Timmy Weekes.
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Chapter 23
...platoon, he happily greets Joe Kielty and embraces Christy Moran, who gives him one of Timmy Weekes’s books—a Dostoevsky novel—to keep. Willie is grateful to Christy and feels a surge of...
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