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Updated: May 29, 2025
And that he succeeded is proved by the fact that at the present moment your room below is probably still full of poison gas! Of course, it may not have been a gas-shell; he may have relied, as well he might do, on the burst! But I'm taking no chances. You can well imagine that failing a knowledge of the arrangement on the tower, no explanation of the mystery would ever have been found!
"You know that poor old Lamswell has gone," he said, as we crossed a grassy stretch, taking a ruined aerodrome as our guiding mark. "Poor chap, he was wounded at the battery position the day after you left. Only a slight wound in the leg from a gas-shell, and every one thought he had got a comfortable 'Blighty. But gangrene set in, and he was dead in three days.
I think he wanted my sympathy, but the telephone kept me so busy messages that certain batteries had started to move, demands from the staff captain for a final return showing the shortage of gas-shell gauntlets, and for lists of area stores that we expected to hand over, and a request from the adjutant to bring the barometer that he had overlooked that there was little time for talk.
One evening there was a "gas warning." Some gusts of wind arrived, bearing along an acrid odour. All the wounded were given masks and spectacles as a precaution. We hung them even on the heads of the beds where dying men lay... and then we waited. Happily, the wave spent itself before it reached us. A wounded man was brought in that evening with several injuries caused by a gas-shell.
However, if you leg it you should catch them up. They can't be more than two miles ahead. So long!" But the task was hopeless. Number Nine Platoon had been bombing, hacking, and digging all day. Several of them were slightly wounded the serious cases had been taken off long ago by the stretcher-bearers and Cockerell's own head was still dizzy from the fumes of a German gas-shell.
Hope they won't tear this tent to ribbons....That sounds like a gas-shell." Then he turned to the telephone again and listened to some voice speaking. "Yes, I can hear you. Yes, go on. 'Our men seen leaving High Wood. Yes. 'Shelled by our artillery. Are you sure of that? I say, are you sure they were our men? Another message. Well, carry on.
By his devotion to duty, self-sacrifice, and contempt of danger, he won the confidence of the men wherever he was. He chiefly worked alone and operated a canteen usually in a dugout at the front. On one occasion a soldier was badly wounded at the door of a hut, by an exploding gas-shell.
The devotion of military chaplains to the wounded, their valor, their decorations for gallantry under fire, their human comradeship and spiritual sincerity, would not bridge the gulf in the minds of many soldiers between a gospel of love and this argument by bayonet and bomb, gas-shell and high velocity, blunderbuss, club, and trench-shovel.
We were thus very much more fortunate than the 7th, but the cases were to be reversed in our next engagement. The force had suffered about 7000 casualties by the 20th and three tanks were knocked out and derelict, while the effects of our gas-shell were certainly not very apparent.
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