Ten Years Ago Today, item 18

• December 10, 2016 01:26:36 Sue Bryant

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  not only for that day but for all time.

  of course there was also the possibility that I should

  be able to put a stop to those same gentlemen’s actions

  in the sniping line who were effectually holding up

  reinforcements, stretcher bearers and even innocent

  artillery officers who would not hurt a fly.

                  Looking back now after a lapse of ten years, I

  think perhaps we should have been able to have effectually

  cleared up this little nest of snipers if we had carried on

  and carefully stalked them round the bays of the trench.

  One never knows there might have been some pretty

  work for me and my telephonist with much

  honour & military crosses etc thrown in. On the other

  hand we were only two and they were an

  unknown quantity and after considering I thought

  it more prudent to retrace my steps and get

  back to my telephonists who I presumed to be

  still sitting on the telephone waiting for orders.

                  So back we wandered, stepping over dead and

  dying Huns, crawling back through the filth of a

  bombarded trench and dodging stray shells with

  the fear that at any turn we should meet some

  more active Germans who had been overlooked in

  the advance. Well luckily we saw no one alive

  enough to do us any harm and eventually reached

  the spot where my two men should have been.

  Alas there were no men but a big shell hole

  burnt in the spot where the phone had been.

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