Jorgan Christian Jensen ["Tales of the V.C."], item 10

• October 21, 2018 19:56:32 Sarika Jain

  occupants to come out quietly and surrender or to take the

  consequences.

    He must have presented rather a terrifying 

  appearance as he stood there at the door of the dug-out. He

  had one bomb in his hand, and was engaged in pulling out the

  safety pin of another with his teeth. At any rate, the Germans

  inside were very soon persuaded that discretion was the more

  profitable policy, and they filed out meekly to surrender to 

  their captor. Perhaps the fate of their late comrade had

  impressed them.

    Another member of Pte. Jensen's party had by now 

  arrived, and was standing on the barricade with a bomb in his hand

  A few more Germans, on emerging from another dug-out a little 

  further along 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 them 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 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

• October 21, 2018 19:55:33 Sarika Jain

  occupants to come out quietly and surrender or to take the

  consequences.

    He must have presented rather a terrifying 

  appearance as he stood there at the door of the dug-out. He

  had one bomb in his hand, and was engaged in pulling out the

  safety pin of another with his teeth. At any rate, the Germans

  inside were very soon persuaded that discretion was the more

  profitable policy, and they filed out meekly to surrender to 

  their captor. Perhaps the fate of their late comrade had

  impressed them.

    Another member of Pte. Jensen's party had by now 

  arrived, and was standing on the barricade with a bomb in his hand

  A few more Germans, on emerging from another dug-out a little 

  further along 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 them 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 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

  
  

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  occupants to come out quietly and surrender or to take the

  consequences.

    He must have presented rather a terrifying 

  appearance as he stood there at the door of the dug-out. He

  had one bomb in his hand, and was engaged in pulling out the

  safety pin of another with his teeth. At any rate, the Germans

  inside were very soon persuaded that discretion was the more

  profitable policy, and they filed out meekly to surrender to 

  their captor. Perhaps the fate of their late comrade had

  impressed them.

    Another member of Pte. Jensen's party had by now 

  arrived, and was standing on the barricade with a bomb in his hand

  A few more Germans, on emerging from another dug-out a little 

  further along 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

   and

  
  

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  occupants to come out quietly and surrender or to take the

  consequences.

    He must have presented rather a terrifying 

  appearance as he stood there at the door of the dug-out. He

  had one bomb in his hand, and was engaged in pulling out the

  safety pin of another with his teeth. At any rate, the Germans

  inside were very soon persuaded that discretion was the more

  profitable policy, and they filed out meekly to surrender to 

  their captor. Perhaps the fate of their late comrade had

  impressed them.

    Another member of Pte. Jensen's party had by now 

  arrived, and was standing on the barricade with a bomb in his hand

  A few more Germans, on emerging from another dug-out a little 

  further along 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

  and

  
  

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