A PICK AND SHOVEL CHARGE.
How keen are the men in the trenches to get at grips with the enemy is illustrated in this letter from Corporal Lewis Jones,, Ist Monmouth Regiment, to a' relative in London:— We were in rather a vicious attacK a fortnight ago. The King inspected us, that week, but we were in quite a different state on that occasion than when he saw us at Cambridge before we came out. We were the nail spick and span, hut we looked rough this journey' We came across the Welsh Guards the other day, and we did seem puny mites beside them. It’s getting warm over hero now. Our artillery are finer than ever. When we got to the German trench in a charge it was simply-a hole in the ground and the parapets were all smashed to pieces. Germans lav dead everywhere. There. is a joke among the chaps in our regiment over that charge. As a pioneer battalion, we thought we would never see much trench fighting or any attacking.'but the only difference there was in the assault was that wo charged with rifle fixed in one hand and a shovel or nick in the other. Some even carried coils of barbed wirel
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Gisborne Times, Volume XLV, Issue 4141, 19 January 1916, Page 5
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208A PICK AND SHOVEL CHARGE. Gisborne Times, Volume XLV, Issue 4141, 19 January 1916, Page 5
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