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Nothing so artistic or so solid as these edifices had yet been seen in the country, and nothing equal to them was produced for many years. Not only were new churches built: they were filled. A great impetus to devotion was received in 1885 and 1886 from Canons Bodington and G. E. Mason, who were sent out from Selwyn's old diocese of Lichfield to hold missions in Auckland and Christchurch.
Those were first attacked from the front, which attack they warded off. The enemy counter-attack then developed on their left and right; both these attacks also were held off for some time by machine-gun, Lewis gun, and rifle fire. The few survivors were forced to withdraw and fight their way back, Captain Bodington and ten other ranks reaching the Black Line safely.
He had shut himself up in his bedroom with a headache and his wife had not seen him since the night before. "This morning I motored into Amesbury to change the library books and to enquire after Canon Bodington. I saw Mrs. Bodington and Phoebe and George ," "Who's George?" "Their son in the Navy, don't you remember? The Sapphire is in dry dock " "How old is he?" "Nineteen," said Mrs. Clowes. "Oh.
Let us now follow the movements of Captain Bodington. He afterwards wrote the following report: "Up to the time of reaching a point a hundred yards in rear of the Black Line, the advance was easy. "On crossing the small rise behind Wine House we came under very heavy machine-gun and rifle fire from both Wine House and Spree Farm.
We passed A Company in Garden Street on the way. I saw Captain Briggs, Hickey, Kerr, and Walsh. They have had no casualties yet. We arrived in Bilge Trench at 8 a.m. Here I found Captain Bodington, Victor Telfer, and Beesley. I had a cup of tea and a sleep during the morning. In the afternoon I sent for my batman, Critchley, as I expected to be here some days.
There was then no officer of this Battalion known to be alive, and the Orderly Room Sergeant Sergeant F. Howarth took command, organizing the defence of that part of the line until the Battalion was withdrawn to Bilge Trench, about 9 a.m. the following morning August 1. Captain Bodington, who was the one surviving officer, came in subsequently from the left of the line."
The officer who reached Wurst Farm was John Redner Bodington, and the gallant young officer who fought like a hound at bay, while wounded over and over again, and hoped that "the General was not disappointed," was none other than the hero whose name is upon the title-page of this book Bertram Best-Dunkley.
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