Jorgan Christian Jensen ["Tales of the V.C."], item 9

• January 24, 2018 00:25:44 Thomas A. Lingner

    Such odds as these must have daunted men less stout-hearted

  than Private Jensen and his Australian comrades. But they 

  fought on. 

    At first they concentrated their fire on the

  party of Germans on their right front, who had brought their

  machine gun into position, and were using it to prevent the 

  advance of another company of the battalion. Meanwhile the

  second party of Germans had lined a barricade, and were already

  opening fire on some of the British, who were moving up to the

  attack just beyond a sunken road. Hitherto Pte. Jensen and

  his small band had refrained from firing upon this second party 

  of the enemy, as they were observed to be wearing white 

  bands upon their arms, which the Australians took to be a 

  sign of the Red Cross. As became soldiers of Britain, they

  had not forgotten their chivalry and humanity even in the heat

  of battle.

    In the meantime a lucky shot from one of the 

  Australian soldiers had knocked at the German machine gun on

  the right. Pte. Jensen was quick to seize the opportunity.

  Shouting to a comrade to cover his advance with rifle fire, 

  he rushed across to the barricade with a bomb in each hand. 

  The enemy, with British bullets sweeping their parapet,

  dared not raise their heads to fire at him, but one of them

  threw a stick bomb, which fell at Jensen's feet. Even that

  failed to stop him, however, and he finished the duel by

  throwing a Lill's Grenade over the parapet. It exploded

  beneath the German's feet, and blew him nearly into the sunken

  road.

    The remaining Germans fled for refuge to a 

  deep dug-out adjoining the barricade. Pte. Jensen followed

  them up, took his stand at the entrance, and invited the 

        occupants

• January 24, 2018 00:25:10 Thomas A. Lingner

    Such odds as these must have daunted men less stout-hearted

  than Private Jensen and his Australian comrades. But they 

  fought on. 

    At first they concentrated their fire on the

  party of Germans on their right front, who had brought their

  machine gun into position, and were using it to prevent the 

  advance of another company of the battalion. Meanwhile the

  second party of Germans had lined a barricade, and were already

  opening fire on some of the British, who were moving up to the

  attack just beyond a sunken road. Hitherto Pte. Jensen and

  his small band had refrained from firing upon this second party 

  of the enemy, as they were observed to be wearing white 

  bands upon their arms, which the Australians took to be a 

  sign of the Red Cross. As became soldiers of Britain, they

  had not forgotten their chivalry and humanity even in the heat

  of battle.

    In the meantime a lucky shot from one of the 

  Australian soldiers had knocked at the German machine gun on

  the right. Pte. Jensen was quick to seize the opportunity.

  Shouting to a comrade to cover his advance with rifle fire, 

  he rushed across to the barricade with a bomb in each hand. 

  The enemy, with British bullets sweeping their parapet,

  dared not raise their heads to fire at him, but one of them

  threw a stick bomb, which fell at Jensen's feet. Even that

  failed to stop him, however, and he finished the duel by

  throwing a Lill's Grenade over the parapet. It exploded

  beneath the German's feet, and blew him nearly into the sunken

  road.

    The remaining Germans fled for refuge to a 

  deep dug-out adjoining the barricade. Pte. Jensen followed

  them up, took his stand at the entrance, and invited the 

       occupants

  
  

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• January 24, 2018 00:24:37 Thomas A. Lingner

    Such odds as these must have daunted men less stout-hearted

  than Private Jensen and his Australian comrades. But they 

  fought on. 

    At first they concentrated their fire on the

  party of Germans on their right front, who had brought their

  machine gun into position, and were using it to prevent the 

  advance of another company of the battalion. Meanwhile the

  second party of Germans had lined a barricade, and were already

  opening fire on some of the British, who were moving up to the

  attack just beyond a sunken road. Hitherto Pte. Jensen and

  his small band had refrained from firing upon this second party 

  of the enemy, as they were observed to be wearing white 

  bands upon their arms, which the Australians took to be a 

  sign of the Red Cross. As became soldiers of Britain, they

  had not forgotten their chivalry and humanity even in the heat

  of battle.

    In the meantime a lucky shot from one of the 

  Australian soldiers had knocked at the German machine gun on

  the right. Pte. Jensen was quick to seize the opportunity.

  Shouting to a comrade to cover his advance with rifle fire, 

  he rushed across to the barricade with a bomb in each hand. 

  The enemy, with British bullets sweeping their parapet,

  dared not raise their heads to fire at him, but one of them

  threw a stick bomb, which fell at Jensen's feet. Even that

  failed to stop him, however, and he finished the duel by

  throwing a Lill's Grenade over the parapet. It exploded

  beneath the German's feet, and blew him nearly into the sunken

  road.

    The remaining Germans fled for refuge to a 

  deep dug-out adjoining the barricade. Pte. Jensen followed

  them up, took his stand at the entrance, and invited the 

      occupants

  
  

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