Literature

Wood 1915

Wood, Walter (ed.), Soldiers’ Stories of the War (London: Chapman and Hall, 1915)

Frontispiece
L Battery’s Heroic Stand, c. 1914

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We were helped by the Germans throwing searchlights on us, c. 1914

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Some of our cavalry caught him, 1914

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The Germans came on and hurled themselves against us, c. 1914

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From behind trees we kept up a destructive fire on the enemy, 1914

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I hoisted the trumpeter into the saddle, 1915

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We found a fair lot of Germans in houses and farms, 1914

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We were so near the Germans that they could hurl bombs at us, c. 1914

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We had a very warm time of it, 1914

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Planted a Maxim on his own knees and rattled into the Germans, c. 1914

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The men were told to lay hands on anything that would float, c. 1914

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Good swimmers were helping those who could not swim, c. 1914

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The ‘Hogue’ began to turn turtle. The four immense funnels broke away, 1914

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A bullet struck him in the back and killed him, 1914

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We were in a real hell of bursting shrapnel, 1914

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I took him up and began to carry him, 1915

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Before they knew what was happening the car was in the river, 1914

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Cavalry and guards got in amongst the Germans and fairly scattered them, 1915

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I made a lunge at him, but just missed, and I saw his own long, ugly blade driven out, 1915

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The infantry dashed on with the bayonet, c. 1914‒1915