Sergeant H. P. Pitts, Honorable Artillery Company, writes thus in the London "Daily News":—"We marched into the trenches during the most awful weather, ...
Article : 296 wordsThe saddest thing in the field of war (says "The Little Paper") is the sight of a German soldier sitting by the roadside with tears streaming down his face. Every ...
Article : 66 wordsThe grain and the entertaining aspects of war are well described in a letter which Driver Arthur Lightbody, R.F.A., has sent to a friend at Leytonstone. He writes:— ...
Article : 431 wordsThe nights are taken up with searching for the wounded and sending them down country. Such wounds! and such patience! and the pathos of the talk of ...
Article : 222 wordsArthur Harper, a corporal in the 5th Dragoons, who resides at Netherton, Dudley, has been promoted to the rank of sergeant, and has been recommended for ...
Article : 115 wordsTwo stories are current concerning our neighbors, the French, which illustrate the spirit that animates all ranks (says "The Eye Witness" with the British forces). One ...
Article : 195 wordsIn the opinion of Corporal E. Barnet, of the 3rd Coldstream Guards, Ypres was their most trying experience. He says:— "Ypres, I think, was the worst of ...
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Article : 122 wordsCorporal F. Robinson, of the 1st Battalion, West Kent Regiment, who has returned from the front to his home at Roundhay-road, Leeds, describes how it ...
Article : 238 wordsPrivate George Stirrat, of the Cameron Highlanders' Band, who is the youngest member of the British army at the front, has been admitted to St. Thomas's ...
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Article : 115 words"It was on a Sunday that I got hit. We were getting shelled heavily, and were just going to move to another position when one of their renowned Jack ...
Article : 219 wordsSome of the ranges at which our heavy artillery has been firing in this war have been very long, and here again the presence of the aviator has been of the ...
Article : 155 wordsAdmiral Sir John Jellicoe writing to his brother at Southampton, says:— "We spent our Christmas Day waiting for the Germans, who did not appear. ...
Article : 65 wordsMessrs. A. C. Roberts, Wright and Co., chartered accountants, wrote to the London "Daily Express" narrating an interesting event which took place "somewhere in ...
Article : 235 wordsLieut. Garnett, the well known Lancashire cricketer, who visited Australia with Maclaren's 1901-2 team, was wounded in Northern France on the 21st December. He ...
Article : 112 wordsImmense slaughter has been taking place in the battles in Poland (says the "Daily News" correspondent), and this will doubtless be unabated until the ascendency has ...
Article : 143 wordsA message from Chalons-sur-Marne, in France, on the 19th December, to the London "Daily News," stated that Bruno Maxheim a mechanic, of Magenta, near ...
Article : 182 wordsThe following extracts from a letter by a German officer at the front to his wife give a good idea of the terrible mud and general conditions of discomfort in the ...
Article : 174 wordsA young Birmingham hero has just returned home with honors gained at two different times in the campaign in France. He is Drummer W. Bradbury, of the 2nd ...
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Bendigonian (Bendigo, Vic. : 1914 - 1918), Tue 23 Feb 1915, Page 27
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