Modern Juggernaut Holds No Fears For Negro Soldiers
LONDON, July 13. A Gold Coast sergeant’s singlehanded bayonet fight with Italians in an armoured car in Abyssinia is described in a despatch which has just reached London, says a British Official Wireless message. Although it was his unit’s first encounter with enemy armoured forces, the sergeant stood his ground, firing steadily until he was knocked down and dazed. Incensed, and refusing to accept defeat, he got up and pursued the armoured car, repeatedly jabbing his bayonet through the visor. Bis contempt for the enemy’s mechanised forces, says the report was shared by his unit, which destroyed every one of the attacking armoured cars, killing, wounding or capturing their crews.
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Northern Advocate, 14 July 1941, Page 6
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