YOUNG OFFICER'S SKILL.
DROVE OUT THE ENEMY.
That the young British officers who have been trained since the outbreak of war and are now at the front are a match for the Germans in courage and resource is being proved abundantly daily. A typical example is that of a subaltern of the territorials who a few months ago was a Cambridge undergraduate, and has only been in France a fortnight. At his pariicular part of the line the German trenches lay 200 yards beyond the crest of a hill, and the young fefcow received orders to take it. Not till the seventh attack did be succeed in driving the Germans out, and then only after losing 75 per cent, of his men.
He did not occupy the captured trenches, but contented himself with taking a position a hundred yards behind. Three minutes later the trenches were blown up by a mine. The officer and about a score of his men, who had survived the seven attacks, hung on to their positions till nightfall, when they were relieved. The officer came through the whole affair without a sera
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LII, Issue 15884, 3 April 1915, Page 2 (Supplement)
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