Ten Years Ago Today, item 20

• December 11, 2016 01:00:42 Sue Bryant

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  ranging       So I waited fuming at my

  inactivity and wishing I was brave enough to go over

  & tackle those people who were so upsetting my

  amazement, and probably the arrangement of

  other folk anxious to get to business.

                  This proved time for soon along came

  a Welsh officer with a dozen men and a

  curious implement of war known as a Stokes

  mortar. This was like a drank pipe down which

  was dropped a bomb shaped like a small shell.

  As the bomb reached the bottom of the pipe it was

  immediately projected to wherever the pipe was

  pointed. It looked a curious toy but was very

  effective in dealing with isolated posts and

  machine guns. This, though was just the thing

  to enter into negotiation with the Welshmen

  to try & enter this spot. Now he was detailed

  to go forward much farther with his little old

  drain pipe and couldn’t waste his precious

  ammunition on a few sniping Huns! I believe he

  called them some other sort of Huns . . know . and

  before the day was out.) Well here was the ..

  He couldn’t get any further while Jerry was there

  and as soon as a head appeared anywhere above

  the trench, it was ping ping!!

  So we argued it out and finally he 

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