letorez

Updated: August 4, 2026

Lyddite and melinite swept like hail across the thin line of intrepid horsemen." "My God! How they fell!" writes Captain Letorez, who, after his horse was shot under him, leapt on a riderless animal and came through unhurt. When the men got up close to the German guns they found themselves riding full tilt into hidden wire entanglements seven strands of barbed wire.

James Alexander Kilpatrick - Tommy Atkins at War: As Told in His Own Letters