Jacob Rivers ["Tales of the V.C."], item 5

• October 23, 2018 22:30:58 Sara Fresi

   handwritten draft of 3rd page 

  
  

   ...  had had quite enough of Pte Rivers and his

   ...  They did not appreciate the idea of a second visit.

  But Pte Rivers and his men reached the trench. Leaping They sprang

  on to the parapet, they and tossed their load of bombs into the

  jostling men mass below. This was more than the enemy could

  face. The survivors scrambled out of the trench, treading

  each other underfoot in their eagerness to escape from

  pain of death, and ran back across No Man's Land towards

  their old trenches.

  
  

  But "the man who routed a battalion" was fated never not to

  return to his Company again a second time. As he stood there on the

  parapet, throwing bombs after the fleeing Germans, he was

  struck by a bullet, and died, gloriously, in the very moment

  of his victory.

• October 23, 2018 22:30:49 Sara Fresi

  
  

  
  

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• July 8, 2017 02:42:46 Denise Ravenhill

   handwritten draft of 3rd page 

  
  

   ...  had had quite enough of Pte Rivers and his

   ...  They did not appreciate the idea of a second visit.

  But Pte Rivers and his men reached the trench. Leaping They sprang

  on to the parapet, they and tossed their load of bombs into the

  jostling men mass below. This was more than the enemy could

  face. The survivors scrambled out of the trench, treading

  each other underfoot in their eagerness to escape from

  pain of death, and ran back across No Man's Land towards

  their old trenches.

  
  

  But "the man who routed a battalion" was fated never not to

  return to his Company again a second time. As he stood there on the

  parapet, throwing bombs after the fleeing Germans, he was

  struck by a bullet, and died, gloriously, in the very moment

  of his victory.

  
  

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