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This vessel was English-built, and had been captured before the war, and condemned, for violating the revenue laws, under the name of the Lord Nelson, by the Oneida 16, Lt. Com. Woolsey the only cruiser we then had on the lake. This craft was unfit for her duty, but time pressed, and no better offered. Bulwarks had been raised on her, and she mounted eight sixes, in regular broadside.
It was the British Colonel's idea that only a large raiding party of Bolos were at Bolsheozerki for the purpose of raiding the supply trains of food that were coming from Archangel to Chekuevo. Phillips reached Chinova before daybreak of the twentieth. Lt.
The friend turned out to be a corporal, carried Lt. Parr's pack back for him and saw him into hospital and in possession of an unlooted pack an example of the vicissitudes of war.
The boy, held prisoner for more than ten months on a small asteroid, was reported in very good health. According to Lt. John Vale, of the Planetoid Police, the kidnap gang could not have been taken by direct assault on their hideout because of fear that the boy might be killed. "The operation required a carefully-planned, one-man infiltration of their hideout," he said. "Mr.
The enemy did not follow and for the remainder of January and up to February 9th the "H" Company men performed the routine duties of patrol and garrison duties in the Onega Valley in the vicinity of Kleshevo without any engagement with the enemy who seemed content to rest in quarters and keep out of the way of the Americans and Allies. On February 10th Lt.
First Battalion Hurries Up The River We Take Chamova The Lay Of The River Land Battling For Seltso Retire To Yakovlevskoe That Most Wonderful Smoke Incidents Of The March Sudden Shift To Shenkursk Area The Battalion Splits Again At Seltso Bolos Attack Edvyinson A Hero. That dismal, gloomy day September 6, 1915 the first battalion, under Lt.-Col.
I was gathering cowslips in the meadow at St. Mary's, and mother stood by with little Maudlin in her arms. They smiled, both of them, ah how sweetly they smiled upon me, and I filled my pinafore with the cowslips, soft, cool, wet cowslips, I feel them in my hand now, so cool, so wet! Myles, I fain would have those cowslips, may I not?" "Child! Child! Thou 'lt break my heart!"
Many of their wounded bore marks of the saber. During the fight there were many daring deeds of personal bravery, which deserves personal mention. Col. Garrard was in the thickest of the fight, often in advance of the lines giving personal direction during the fight. Lt. Col. Minor was also on hand doing his part nobly. Capt. Allen, of Col.
They reported afterward that the Bolos had tied dogs in the woods whose barking had given the alarm. That company advanced in the face of strong machine gun fire and Capt. Bailey, a British officer went to his death gallantly leading his men in a rush at the guns on a ridge. But floundering in the snow, with their second officer wounded, they were repulsed and forced to retire. At 5:00 a. m. Lt.
Of these 66 were won: 3 lost: 5 drawn: goals for 217: goals against 45. Patterson, 2nd. Lt. Gourlay, Pte. Davidson, Pte. Buchanan, Pte. Thomson, Sgt. Fyall, Pte. Gair. Sitting Sgt. Goodall, Lt.-Col. Ogilvie, Pte. M'Guffog, Cpl. Davis, Capt. Andrew. In front Pte. Petrie, Pte. Moir. The Divisional Cross Country Run was also won by us, and we were selected to run in the Inter-Corps Run.
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