GENERAL MARCHAND'S BRAVERY STORY OF HIS WOUNDING
(Received October 2, 9.5 a.m.) * PARIS, Ist October. "Calmly puffing his pipe, like a company commander, General Marchand placed himself at the head of a column in the advance between Perthes and Souain." This picture is given by a 'wounded private in the colonial infantry, who was alongside General Marchand (of Fashoda fame) when he was wounded. "The General's bravery is a legend in the whole division. When the order to advance was given on Saturday, General Marchand arrived amid a hail of bullets and made a short speech, which was inaudible owing to the roar of the guns. Our Colonial Division, with a Moroccan division, a brigade of Zouaves, and a brigade of the Foreign Legion, formed at the first of the war, were launched against the trenches. The men covered 150 yards through a perfect hell of shot and shell, and justf reached the first Boche trench when General Marchand dropped with a shell splinter in the abdomen. Stretcher-bearers picked him up and took him to the hospital at Suippes, where he is doing well. It is believed that a cure is only a question of time. \
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Evening Post, Volume XC, Issue 80, 2 October 1915, Page 5
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