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Updated: May 4, 2025
Immediate action is called for. Captain Blaikie flings an order over his shoulder to the subaltern in command of the leading platoon "Pass back word that this road is under shell fire. Move!" and rides forward to meet the General. In ten seconds the road behind him is absolutely clear, and the men are streaming out to right and left in half-platoons.
The ford proved impassable for the infantry and a number were drowned there, but the great majority were saved by the bridge. I gathered together my regiment, as much as was possible, and having been formed into tightly packed half-platoons which could give each other mutual support, they entered the water in reasonably good order and gained the other bank with the loss of only two men.
I have just passed the word down that the road is under shell fire." "Quite so. But don't you think you ought to keep some of your company in rear, as a supporting line? I see you have got them all up on one front." By this time A Company is advancing in its original direction, but split up into eight half-platoons in single file four on each side of the road, at intervals of thirty yards.
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