STRANGE ESCAPES ON THE BATTLEFIELD.

Press, Volume LII, Issue 15767, 7 December 1916, Page 5

STRANGE ESCAPES ON THE BATTLEFIELD.

Some strange escapes from death in tho recent Sorame fighting; were described by a sergeant in a Yorkshire regiment. He was wounded in the storming of Conrceletto and is now in a London hospital. - "Nothing a man does Or does not do," ho said, "seems to affect his chances. I've seen careful men get winged before the daredevils, and I've seen the careless man get hit when the cautious man escapes. "In the recent fighting one man in my platoon first got hit in the mouth. The bullet broke one of his teeth, and glancincr off, just barely grazed his lip. Tell minutes later a bullet scarred across his identity disc, cutting his tunic across his chest; and later, in Courcelette, a bomb exploded in his pocket, and, bursting outwards, never touched tho man. "Another man had three bombs in his pocket explode and passed through the experience unscathed; while a corporal had a bullet through his steel helmet. It went in at the front, travelled round his head, tearing the inside padding all round, and went out at tho back, smashing up the helmet. And his head showed no trace of the bullet! "I saw another bomb burst between a sergeant's feet. Three men were standing together. It blew the sergeant into the air and smashed up his feet, but the other two men were not scratched.'.'