MAGNIFICENT BUT AWFUL SIGHT.
WOUNDED OFFICER'S COURAGE. "Times & Sydney Sun Senrices." (Received August 31, 8 a.m.) LONDON, August 2S. A non-commissioned officer who was firing line says that the fighting was a magnificent but awful sight. "The shells and shrapnel," he said, "made ni&ht hideous. Our chap s were calm, and took deliberate aim. The captain was knocked over early by a piece of shell, which smashed his leg. In spite of the pain, he knelt on one knee, and cheerfully kept saying, 'My bonnie hoys, make sure of your man. 7 When being taken away in an ambulance, he shouted: 'Keep cool, and, mark' your man. 1 "
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 1 September 1914, Page 5
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108MAGNIFICENT BUT AWFUL SIGHT. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 1 September 1914, Page 5
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