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He was wounded in the leg; we gave him a drink though water was very scarce, we only had one bottle among three; then we gave him a kick and sent him on his way rejoicing back to his lines. The third night we were relieved shelling had been heavy all day and all the approaches to our lines were blotted out the barrages had made them impassable during the day.
The reserve battalions which were to undertake the storming of the village had gone over the ground under the barrages and were up to the first objective, and when through the new line occupied by the men who made the first charge they could begin their own charge. As barrages are intermittent, one commander had his men lie down behind one until it had ceased.
He nodded towards a party of girls in light dresses who were sitting down at a table close by. Langberg shook his head. He was greedy for news from the great world without, which he had never had the luck to see. "I've often wondered," he went on, "how you managed to come to the front so in that sort of work railways and barrages, and so forth when, your original line was mechanical engineering.
Hence daily practices in attack formation, the following of barrages to first, second, and final objectives, the making of Z shaped posts and sending forward of patrols and scouts. The Brigadier was an enthusiastic spectator of the work, and woe betide the platoon officer whose men gave reckless answers to the General's questions. The 'Platoon Test' was introduced.
"The Germans are very slow with their shell fire," said Howell in the course of his ejaculations, as he watched the operations. Answering barrages, including a visitation to our own position which was completely exposed, were in order. Howell himself had been knocked over by a shell here during the last attack.
They stormed the Pozieres ridge yard by yard, and held its crest under sweeping barrages which tore up their trenches as soon as they were dug and buried and mangled their living flesh.
The Hans in the valleys now were shooting diagonal barrages up the slopes toward the ridges, where they suspected we would be most strongly posted, thus making a cross-fire up the two sides of a ridge, while their heavy batteries, somewhat in the rear, shot straight along the tops of the ridges.
I have waited, but now the time is ripe. You shall stretch your arm over Egypt and it will rise to you. You shall have paper for plans, and men and money for travel and works-cuttings, and pumps, and sand-bags for banks and barrages. You shall be second in your department but first in fact, for shall not I, your friend, be your chief?
It was as though men were playing at war here, while others sixty miles away were fighting and dying, in mud and gas-waves and explosive barrages. An "open sesame," by means of a special pass, was needed to enter this City of Beautiful Nonsense.
It is impossible to estimate the amount of work that these runners had done for the Battalion, not only as message carriers, but some of them as personal orderlies to the C.O. and other Headquarter Officers. In Lens they had proved themselves not only capable of wonderful endurance, but to be possessed of the greatest courage, fearing neither the enemy himself nor his barrages.
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