HE SWORE AT THE GENERAL

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3140, 19 July 1917, Page 6

HE SWORE AT THE GENERAL

An Australian lieutenant, who has been on active service for a couple of years, thus recounts how he was promoted on the field. Writing from London, ho said: "I had quite short notice that leave was available to me, but anything is possible to a soldier. I learned that I got it on account of getting a Bocho 'plane (they are not often brought down by machine-guns fired from the ground). On the march from I was brought before the G.0.C., and by him congratulated and, incidentally, given a second star. >

"When I got that Eritz 'plane I had only a pair of pyjama pants on, and it was cold. When all was over I came back to my hut, and a figure in Tyjamas asked me, 'Are you frightened?' My teeth were chattering and my legs were sinking with the cold. -I said, 'No. vou, but I am cold,' and vanished to bed. I did not know that it was the G.0.C., v -iw, was --.pending the night with the colonel. Next morning a runner came with orders for me to report to the colonel—that the G.O.C. wanted to sec me. My heart sank: Tn the meantime T had found out who the figure in y.jiamas. whom I had sworn at. was. However, ho personally put another star mi ray shoulder and made nico remarks."