Jorgan Christian Jensen ["Tales of the V.C."], item 7

• January 24, 2018 02:01:48 Thomas A. Lingner

  were greeted by this uncompromising spectacle, and

  also decided that they could do no better than surrender.

  Accordingly they dropped their rifles and joined their

  comrades, who were now gathering around Pte. Jensen with their hands up.

    Jensen, who could speak a little German,

  ordered one of his prisoners to go across to the

  party on the right and inform that they

  were already surrounded by Australians.

  This embassy was successful, and the German returned with

  the news that the whole party was willing to surrender.

    But the adventure was not yet quite over. Some of the Australians

  who now came suddenly upon the Germans for the first

  time, were unaware that they had thrown

  down their arms, and prepared to open fire upon them. Pte.

  Jensen, with the same sense of chivalry that had

  prompted him to withhold his fire earlier in the day,

  at once mounted the barricade, at great risk

  to himself, and waved his helmet.

  The signal was seen and the order not to fire was immediately given.

  Pte. Jensen then marshaled his prisoners together,

  handed them over to an escort of slightly wounded

  men, and rejoined his company.

    Never, perhaps, was the Victoria Cross more nobly won and more deservedly bestowed.

    It is such deeds as these, by men of friendly nations who have sacrificed everything

  in order to give practical proof of their sympathies with the cause of the Entente, that

  fill the hearts of both their countrymen and their adopted countrymen with pride.

  Such chivalrous bravery in the face of an unscrupulous enemy provides not only a

  bond between Danes and Englishmen, but a lesson that every neutral man and

  woman may well take to heart.

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• January 24, 2018 01:54:51 Thomas A. Lingner

  the trench, were greeted by this uncompromising

  spectacle, and also decided that they could do no better than

  surrender. Accordingly they dropped their rifles and joined

  their comrades, who were now gathering around Pte. Jensen with

  their hands up.

    Jensen, who could speak a little German, ordered

  one of his prisoners to go across to the party on the right

  and inform that they were already surrounded by Australians.

    But the adventure was not quite over. Some 

  of the Australians who now came suddenly upon the Germans for

  the first time, were unaware that they had thrown down their

  arms, and prepared to open fire upon them. Pte. Jensen, with

  the same sense of chivalry that had prompted him to withhold his

  fire earlier in the day, at once mounted the barricade, at great

  risk to himself, and waved his helmet. The signal was seen

  
  

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