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  2. INCIDENTS OF THE WAR.

    Sergeant H. P. Pitts, Honorable Artillery Company, writes thus in the London "Daily News":—"We marched into the trenches during the most awful weather, ...

    Article : 296 words
  3. THOUGHTS OF HOME.

    The saddest thing in the field of war (says "The Little Paper") is the sight of a German soldier sitting by the roadside with tears streaming down his face. Every ...

    Article : 66 words
  4. DINNER SCATTERED BY "MR. JOHNSON."

    The grain and the entertaining aspects of war are well described in a letter which Driver Arthur Lightbody, R.F.A., has sent to a friend at Leytonstone. He writes:— ...

    Article : 431 words
  5. FROZEN FEET IN THE TRENCHES.

    The nights are taken up with searching for the wounded and sending them down country. Such wounds! and such patience! and the pathos of the talk of ...

    Article : 222 words
  6. RECOMMENDED FOR THE V.C.

    Arthur Harper, a corporal in the 5th Dragoons, who resides at Netherton, Dudley, has been promoted to the rank of sergeant, and has been recommended for ...

    Article : 115 words
  7. FRENCH SPIRIT AND ENDURANCE.

    Two stories are current concerning our neighbors, the French, which illustrate the spirit that animates all ranks (says "The Eye Witness" with the British forces). One ...

    Article : 195 words
  8. "YPRES WORST OF ALL."

    In the opinion of Corporal E. Barnet, of the 3rd Coldstream Guards, Ypres was their most trying experience. He says:— "Ypres, I think, was the worst of ...

    Article : 212 words
  9. THE 5TH LANCERS.

    A letter from the front says that some days ago Sir John French inspected and addressed the 5th (Royal Irish) Lancers. He told the regiment that, as an old ...

    Article : 122 words
  10. BURIED MAN'S FEELINGS.

    Corporal F. Robinson, of the 1st Battalion, West Kent Regiment, who has returned from the front to his home at Roundhay-road, Leeds, describes how it ...

    Article : 238 words
  11. UNDER FIRE AT FOURTEEN.

    Private George Stirrat, of the Cameron Highlanders' Band, who is the youngest member of the British army at the front, has been admitted to St. Thomas's ...

    Article : 123 words
  12. "I VOS DOT HANS MULLER!"

    The following story is told by a soldier in Country Life":—"In the trenches opposite one of our regiments there is a bald headed old gentleman by the name of ...

    Article : 115 words
  13. "ONE CAN NEVER FORGET."

    "It was on a Sunday that I got hit. We were getting shelled heavily, and were just going to move to another position when one of their renowned Jack ...

    Article : 219 words
  14. A TRUE STORY OF A LONG RANGE.

    Some of the ranges at which our heavy artillery has been firing in this war have been very long, and here again the presence of the aviator has been of the ...

    Article : 155 words
  15. HOLY COMMUNION WITH THE MEN AT THEIR GUNS.

    Admiral Sir John Jellicoe writing to his brother at Southampton, says:— "We spent our Christmas Day waiting for the Germans, who did not appear. ...

    Article : 65 words
  16. BOARD MEETING IN THE TRENCHES.

    Messrs. A. C. Roberts, Wright and Co., chartered accountants, wrote to the London "Daily Express" narrating an interesting event which took place "somewhere in ...

    Article : 235 words
  17. ENGLISH CRICKETER WOUNDED.

    Lieut. Garnett, the well known Lancashire cricketer, who visited Australia with Maclaren's 1901-2 team, was wounded in Northern France on the 21st December. He ...

    Article : 112 words
  18. GERMANS SHELL FLEEING PEOPLE.

    Immense slaughter has been taking place in the battles in Poland (says the "Daily News" correspondent), and this will doubtless be unabated until the ascendency has ...

    Article : 143 words
  19. SPY SENTENCED TO DEATH IN FRANCE.

    A message from Chalons-sur-Marne, in France, on the 19th December, to the London "Daily News," stated that Bruno Maxheim a mechanic, of Magenta, near ...

    Article : 182 words
  20. UP TO THE NECK IN MUD.

    The following extracts from a letter by a German officer at the front to his wife give a good idea of the terrible mud and general conditions of discomfort in the ...

    Article : 174 words
  21. CARRIED DESPATCHES AFTER LOSING AN ARM.

    A young Birmingham hero has just returned home with honors gained at two different times in the campaign in France. He is Drummer W. Bradbury, of the 2nd ...

    Article : 222 words
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