LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
Walter Wood
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L Battery’s heroic stand: “Another battery of horse-gunners was dashing to the rescue”
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“We were helped by the Germans throwing searchlights on us”
2
“Some of our cavalry caught him”
16
“The Germans came on and hurled themselves against us”
38
“From behind trees we kept up a destructive fire on the enemy”
50
“I hoisted the trumpeter into the saddle”
62
“We found a fair lot of Germans in houses and farms”
80
“We were so near the Germans that they could hurl bombs at us”
102
“We had a very warm time of it”
112
“Planted a maxim on his knees and rattled into the Germans”
128
“The men were told to lay hands on anything that would float”
168
“Good swimmers were helping those who could not swim”
180
“The
Hogue
began to turn turtle; the four immense funnels broke away”
188
“A bullet struck him in the back and killed him”
202
“We were in a real hell of bursting shrapnel”
222
“I took him up and began to carry him”
234
“Before they knew what was happening the car was in the river”
244
“Cavalry and Guards got in amongst the Germans and fairly scattered them”
254
“I made a lunge at him, but just missed, and I saw his own long, ugly blade driven out”
286
“The infantry dashed on with the bayonet”
302
SOLDIERS’ STORIES OF
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