STRUCK BY EIGHT BULLETS

Marlborough Express, Volume XLIX, Issue 251, 22 October 1915, Page 2

STRUCK BY EIGHT BULLETS

LIEUT EN ANT'S NA RROW

ESCAPE

Writing to his par^ts under' date August ,11th, Lieut. ?Fred. : Starnrs,. Lower Moutere, says:" "I got' tne lot that I am suffering from on August 7th in our big forward move. Our battalion was attacking, on- the extreme, right of this plirticular position. Levying'our. bivouac area.-at about midnight, we, pot to the position we had to attack at about d.dU a,m Well, the position Avas carried at the point' of the bayonet, and things all along the line" were-success-ful. It ffaswnr job then to dig in, which was straightway carried out. We had to make our position secure at this pomt, and it was the .^ob/ot another battalion to push through our-lines- and still carry on. the attack: At 12 o'clock on SatTirda,y we hadn't enough trenches to hold us -.vhen they .started to .shell us properly That when I got mino. Dashed if I didn't think my time had come, and that with a ■vengeance. I had find bullets ''pipping:'; nncV clipping dirt over me all,mpjqiing;,.but, to bOTo'a shell strike "Wife'"ground and explode 3 yards from you iv fairly hellish. The result—oix .shrapnel bullets in the left arm .from shoulder to just below the, "elbow (we.l peppered), and one entered just under left, armpit, .and oamo1 out through my left breast just above the heart (narrow escape). That one has given me very little trouble—and another one smashed up my forefinger' on my right hand, making a,-total of eiglV: buUets catching me ail at once (too many to be pleasant); but fortunately I am getting along splendidly.. ' — L'eut. fttarnes- has. since embao-ked for England. ;