roffey

Updated: May 16, 2025

And now she is with us, but, poor girl, I am afraid she will die. Captain Roffey, Lancashire Fusiliers, tells how he was found wounded, and handed over his revolver to the Germans, whereupon his captor used it to shoot him again, and left him for dead. There is no end to the stories of this kind, and one of the wounded vehemently declared that the "devilry of the Germans cannot be exaggerated."

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