The Children's Story of the War Volume 4 (of 10): The Story of the Year 1915Parrott, Edward
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The Children's Story of the War Volume 4 (of 10): The Story of the Year 1915
Parrott, Edward
World War, 1914-1918 -- Juvenile literature
Near Hulluch, on 25th September, Private Peachment saw his company
commander lying wounded, and crawled out to assist him. He knelt in the
open by the side of his officer, and while bandaging him was struck
first by a fragment of a bomb, then by a bullet which found its billet.
Private Peachment was one of the youngest men in his battalion.
Private Arthur Vickers, 2nd Battalion, Royal Warwickshire Regiment.
During the advance on the first line of German trenches the
Warwickshires found themselves held up by wire. Without waiting for
orders, Private Vickers ran forward through very heavy shell, rifle, and
machine-gun fire and cut the wire. It was broad daylight, and as he
stood up to do the work, he was in full view of the enemy. Thanks to his
fine pluck, a way was opened for the battalion to advance again.
Lieutenant-Colonel Angus Falconer Douglas-Hamilton, 6th Battalion,
Cameron Highlanders.
You will remember that on Sunday, 26th September, the Germans flung
their reserves upon our wornout men, and the situation was desperate.
On Hill 70, when the battalions to the right and left had retired,
Lieutenant-Colonel Douglas-Hamilton rallied his men again and again and
led them forward three times. There were now only about fifty of his
brave lads left; nevertheless he cried, "Come on, men. We will show them
how to charge." As they pressed forward he fell--"the bravest man the
Camerons have lost."
Rifleman Kulbir Thapa, 2nd Battalion, 3rd Queen Alexandra's Own Gurkha
Rifles.
This gallant Gurkha, though badly hit, found a wounded man of the 2nd
Leicestershire Regiment behind the first-line German trench, and strove
to help him in. The British soldier urged him to save himself; but the
Indian refused to leave his white comrade, and remained with him all day
and night. In the early morning of 26th September, when a mist hung over
the battlefield, he managed to get the Leicestershire man into a
sheltered place. He then went out again and brought in two wounded
Gurkhas. Finally he returned to the British soldier, and in full view of
the enemy staggered with his burden across the zone of fire into safety.
Private Robert Dunsire, 13th Battalion, Royal Scots.
Private Dunsire, who was a collier before the war and had only been
married six months when he enlisted, was one of that noble band who
freely risked limb and life to save others. He was sitting on the
parapet of a trench on Hill 70 when he saw a wounded comrade crawling
painfully along. At once he made a dive out of the trench, got the
wounded man on his back, and brought him in. A quarter of an hour later,
he spied and rescued another poor fellow in distress. "This time," he
said, "it was worse than the first, as the shells were bursting all
around, and the snipers kept up a continuous fire." Early in February
1916 the sad news arrived that he had been killed.
Corporal James Dalgleish Pollock, 5th Battalion, Cameron Highlanders.
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