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Updated: June 11, 2025
Major Harville was shot by a machine-gun while he was detailing us to defend the two gun-pits farthest from the place where the enemy had got past our wire. He fell into my gun-pit, sir, shot in the head. Mr Dawes, who took command, said we would keep on with rifles, and Bombardier Clidstone was doing fine work with his Lewis gun.
Shortly afterwards a grenadier announced: "Bombardier Vogt is here, sir." "Let him come in," said the inspector. Then he turned away, and stood looking out of the window. Franz Vogt went quietly up to his father and looked into his face with his frank honest eyes. "Good-day, father," he said simply. The turnpike-keeper took his son's hand in both his own.
The senior-lieutenant repeated his order, whereupon the corporal took the bombardier by his right arm and marched away with him through the gate into the courtyard of the barrack. When they were out of hearing, Reimers turned to his companion: "Were you not a little hard on him, Brettschneider?"
But it was necessary that the Czar himself should be able to judge of the science of his subjects; he must counteract Russian indolence and prejudice by the force of a great example; and Peter, after having begun his career in the navy at the rank of "skipper," and in the army at that of bombardier, was to become a carpenter of Saardam.
Women ripen early, are soon at their prime, and fade prematurely, under this quickening Southern sun. The husband was older, yet better preserved, than his wife a large, stout man, with a fierce face and black, baleful eyes. All cowered before him except La Zandunga, as they called his wife here in Bombardier Lane.
What mattered was the enormous whimsicality of the Bombardier at the piano, and the outrageous comicality of a tousle-haired soldier with a red nose, who described how he had run away from Mons "with the rest of you," and the light heartedness of a performance which could have gone straight to a London music-hall and brought down the house with jokes and songs made up in dugouts and front line trenches.
A knock at the door, and the entrance of a quick-eyed dapper bombardier from the very battery talked of prevented Dumble continuing. "From Major Harville, sir," he said, saluting.
Brettschneider again and in a louder tone commanded: "Bombardier Vogt, straighten your knees!" But Vogt did not care; a mad resentment surged up in him. He would not obey this idiot at any price. He raised his head, and looked the officer straight in the face with eyes full of open mutiny. Brettschneider shouted again: "Bombardier Vogt, I order you to straighten your knees.
This misadventure, for they had hoped to turn the artillery against the intrenched camp, decided Ali's men on attacking the second redoubt, commanded by the chief bombardier. The Asiatic troops of Baltadgi Pacha rushed to its defence.
Did ever you know a wagon full to the brim wi' lyddite being hit by a high-explosive, Bombardier, or hear how 'twould affect the Column's health?" "I knew of a German column that one of our airyplanes dropped a bomb on, at the Aisne, sir," I sez. "I passed the place on the road myself soon after."
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