Thomas Witham ["Tales of the V.C."], item 3

• January 18, 2018 04:31:30 Thomas A. Lingner

  But the machine gun was silent, and no bullets came out of the

  ruins to sweep their ranks as they advanced.

  Then the men of the leading wave reached the ruins, they saw in a

  shell-hole a strange group of four men. On one side of it, with their

  hands held stiffly above their heads, sat two disheveled Germans, one

  of them an officer, a look of pained surprise still upon their faces.

  On the other sat Private Witham, his finger on the trigger of a

  revolver which had until recently been the property of an officer in

  the German army. Sprawled uncomfortably at the bottom of the

  shell-hole and groaning piteously, lay the third member of the

  machine gun's crew. Pte Witham's tactics had evidently been

  somewhat unorthodox, but they had proved exceedingly effective.

  The machine-gun itself, its barrel still warm, had been

  overturned in the struggle, and lay on it's [sic] side on the rim of

  the shell-hole.

  
  

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