Ten Years Ago Today, item 15

• December 15, 2016 13:35:13 Jake Warren

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  fashion. Small ones and large ones ploughed holes

  in the ground where no one was, but we had

  to traverse that land ducking into the nearest

  shell-hole to avoid a near one, watching with

  ever increasing trepidation the intensifying of that

  barrage until our progress became a series of

  short runs and drops & plunges to avoid the

  flying fragments. I don’t want to pose before

  you in any heroic strain. No one really was anxious

  to do anything gallant but to walk up through

  that barrage laying a telephone cable as we went

  was one of the most nerve racking jobs I had ever

  undertaken. It was the uncertainty, the lonliness

  that caused this awful sinking feeling in the pit

  of one’s stomach. It is easier to be brave in a

  crowd than when one is alone. A hundred men

  running over shell swept land can often laugh

  at this near one or that. It’s all in the game, and

  if one gets it, well the others carry on & hope for the best

  But we were five and it was my job to get

  there & my job to keep a brave face. Well

  we got a certain way without mishap. Up to

  the old British front line with our line of

  communication running in the trench. Then came

  the first obstacle. Our line was short by about

  500 yards and there was nothing for it but to

  send one man back for fresh cable, leave  two

  at the end of the line and reconcile with the

  other until I could find a spot to get into

  visible communication with Brigade.

• December 9, 2016 23:34:17 Sue Bryant

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  fashion. Small ones and large ones ploughed holes

  in the ground where no one was, but we had

  to traverse that land ducking into the nearest

  shell-hole to avoid a near one, watching with

  ever increasing trepidation the intensifying of that

  barrage until our progress became a series of

  short runs and drops & plunges to avoid the

  flying fragments. I don’t want to pose before

  you in any heroic strain. No one really was anxious

  to do anything gallant but to walk up through

  that barrage laying a telephone cable as we went

  was one of the most nerve racking jobs I had ever

  undertaken. It was the uncertainty, the lonliness

  that caused this awful sinking feeling in the pit

  of one’s stomach. It is easier to be brave in a

  crowd than when one is alone. A hundred men

  running over shell swept land can often laugh

  at this near on or that. It’s all in the game, and

  if one gets it, well the others carry on & hope for the best

  But we were five and it was my job to get

  there & my job to keep a brave face. Well

  we got a certain way without mishap. Up to

  the old British front line with our line of

  communication running in the trench. Then came

  the first obstacle. Our line was short by about

  500 yards and there was nothing for it but to

  send one man back for fresh cable, leave  two

  at the end of the line and reconcile with the

  other until I could find a spot to get into

  visible communication with Brigade.

  
  

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• December 9, 2016 23:33:57 Sue Bryant

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  fashion. Small ones and large ones ploughed holes

  in the ground where no one was, but we had

  to traverse that land ducking into the nearest

  shell-hole to avoid a near one, watching with

  ever increasing trepidation the intensifying of that

  barrage until our progress became a series of

  short runs and drops & plunges to avoid the

  flying fragments. I don’t want to pose before

  you in any heroic strain. No one really was anxious

  to do anything gallant but to walk up through

  that barrage laying a telephone cable as we went

  was one of the most nerve racking jobs I had ever

  undertaken. It was the uncertainty, the lonliness

  that caused this awful sinking feeling in the pit

  of one’s stomach. It is easier to be brave in a

  crowd than when one is alone. A hundred men

  running over shell swept land can often laugh

  at this near on or that. It’s all in the game, and

  if one gets it, well the others carry on & hope for the best

  But we were five and it was my job to get

  there & my job to keep a brave face. Well

  we got a certain way without mishap. Up to

  the old British front line with our line of

  communication running in the trench. Then came

  the first obstacle. Our line was short by about

  500 yards and there was nothing for it but to

  send one man back for fresh cable, leave  two

  at the end of the line and reconcile with the

  other until I could find a spot to get into

  visible communication with Brigade.

  
  

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• December 9, 2016 23:33:01 Sue Bryant

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  fashion. Small ones and large ones ploughed holes

  in the ground where no one was, but we had

  to traverse that land ducking into the nearest

  shell-hole to avoid a near one, watching with

  ever increasing trepidation the intensifying of that

  barrage until our progress became a series of

  short runs and drops & plunges to avoid the

  flying fragments. I don’t want to pose before

  you in any heroic strain. No one really was anxious

  to do anything gallant but to walk up through

  that barrage laying a telephone cable as we went

  was one of the most nerve racking jobs I had ever

  undertaken. It was the uncertainty, the lonliness

  that caused this awful sinking feeling in the pit

  of one’s stomach. It is easier to be brave in a

  crowd than when one is alone. A hundred men

  running over shell swept land can often laugh

  at this near on or that. It’s all in the game, and

  if one gets it, well the others carry on & hope for the best

  But we were five and it was my job to get

  there & my job to keep a brave face. Well

  we got a certain way without mishap. Up to

  the old British front line with our line of

  communication running in the trench. Then came

  the first obstacle. Our line was short by about

  500 yards and there was nothing for it but to

  send one man back for fresh cable, leave  two

  at the end of the line and reconcile with the

  other until I could find a spot to get into

  visible communication with Brigade.

  
  

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