OFFICERS FIRST UNDER FIRE.
" If a man tells you that he was as cool as a cucumber the very first time he was under shell fire, put him down a a liar,',' said a gallant major who left an arm at Neuve Chapelle, to the London correspondent of tho Despatch. The military chiefs are well aware that it takes the average brave man a little time to get accustomed to fire. In some of the territorial rem. ments which have recently gone to the front tho rank and file have been left in the rear while tho officers have been sent right up to the first lino of trenches. When the officers are fully acclimatised the men co forward, and then they benefit by the fact that their leaders have al-, ready acquired the coolness of veterans
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LII, Issue 15948, 19 June 1915, Page 2 (Supplement)
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