shell-dazed

Updated: May 16, 2025

This was trench nerves. Shortly, we ran into a solid wall of barrage fire. The officer commanding the company halted us. We were for pushing on to that rest each aching bone and muscle, each tight-stretched and shell-dazed nerve fairly screamed aloud for. But he was adamant. We cursed him. He pretended not to hear. This also was trench nerves. It was growing late. The star shells became fewer.

George Pearson - The Escape of a Princess Pat: Being the full account of the capture and fifteen months': imprisonment of Corporal Edwards, of the Princess Patricia's: Canadian Light Infantry, and his final escape from Germany: into Holland