fire-scourged

Updated: May 11, 2025

Here are just two such incidents both of them on record, by the way, at the British War Office "A collie, down near Soissons, was sent across a bad strip of fire-scourged ground, with a message. A boche sharpshooter fired at him and shattered his jaw. The dog kept on, in horrible agony, and delivered the message.

Albert Payson Terhune - Bruce