A SHELL-HOLE SHAVE

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3152, 2 August 1917, Page 7

A SHELL-HOLE SHAVE

OPERATION WHICH A GERMAN STOPPED, TEMPORARILY. "Tho coolest thing I'va seen out there," said a wounded private "of the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, "was after the advance 'had broken into open fighting. The shell-holes we held wei'o next to a battalion of the Gordons, and as things were quiet, except for a bit of shelling, I dropped into a shell-holo where the Gordons wore. "A sergeantmajor was shaving as calmly as if there were, no such thing,? as shells flying around. I 6aid to him, 'Man, sergeantmajor, ye arnae fear't?' Says he: 'I left my fear by tho side 0' the Lossie.' "Wo were talking away about .Elgin and Pluscarden and Mosstowie, and about peoplo thereabout, when suddenly a Bbcho turned up at the crater lip. He find, an ugly, look, as if he meant mischief, but it didnao disturb the sergeantmajor much.' He just laid down Lis. razor and picked uip. his rifle and bayonet, and sauntered cut with soap down ono side of his face. "The Boche had 11 'bomb in his hand, but he dropped it without drawing the safety pin, and put up his hands. The sergeant-major rounded him up into the shell-hole, dropping him in by the scriilf of his neck. He made the German hold up the mirror till he finished his shave."