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Updated: June 19, 2025
These new trenches were quiet enough, but the sniping of the enemy was far too good. I was nearly caught out before I realised that fact. I was looking over the parapet the first day with L.-C. Austin, when a bullet caught the edge of the parapet just in front of us, tearing the sandbag along the top and stopping within a few inches of our heads.
So he moved large numbers of troops toward the shattered mound, the British artillery was reenforced, and the hastily constructed sandbag breastworks were improved with all possible speed. The Germans then attacked with gas bombs. Projectiles filled with gas were hurled upon the British from three sides.
This bad going in the dark was pretty rough on the wounded man, but, like most in his condition, he stuck it splendidly, and was deeply grieved he was such a burden to his cobbers. At length they reached the dressing-station at the Cove, and placed him on a table in a room with sandbag walls. Several medical men examined the wound and spoke technically thereon.
Says Ives, very cool: 'Let me have your denial in writing and we'll print it opposite the certified copy of the indictment. The old boy begins to whimper; 'That's outlawed. It was all wrong, anyway. Ives is sympathetic, but stands pat. Drop the suit and The Patriot will be considerate and settle the legal fees. Aminadab drops, ten times out of ten. The sandbag has put him away."
I could see that both the General and the interpreter were getting quite peeved, but Scotty answered smilingly: "I will tell you what I did. The Sergeant in charge gave me a long stick with a nail in the end, and I had this stick in one hand and a sandbag in the other, and my work was to go through the trenches picking up all the paper, cigarette boxes, and tin cans."
Why, any one of these poor pinhead farmers could come out our way, get twenty acres of irrigated land, and in five years " "Hold on!" cried Bob, "you haven't by any chance some of that real estate for sale or a sandbag?" Baker laughed. "Everybody gets that way," said he. "I'll bet the first five men you meet will fill you up on statistics."
On the left some 150 yards from the front line a little circular sandbag keep, about 40 yards in diameter and known as S.P. 1, formed a Company Headquarters and fortified post, while a series of holes covered by sheets of iron and called E4 dug-outs provided some more accommodation of a very inferior order, since the slightest movement by day drew fire from the snipers' posts on "Hill 76."
If they were dug into the ground they would instantly become full of water. No doubt they might have been built up with sandbag parapets, but this apparently was not thought necessary, owing, no doubt, to the fact that the inundation pushes back the German lines for nearly two miles. Also the car was made to drive very slowly lest it should raise a cloud of dust and so give us away.
Meet at the Long Gallery." I stumbled out on the clearing in a half stupor. The arrival of the long-expected confirmation of our suspicions had the same effect upon me as a blow from a sandbag.
This fighting around the Sandbag Battery had cost us very dear: Cathcart was killed, the Guards were decimated, and Wilders's brigade, now commanded by Colonel Blythe, had fallen back, spent and disorganised.
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