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Even as he told the signaller on duty to get him Divisional Artillery, a call came through. It was the Artillery Brigade from whom we expected a messenger with the orders. "No!" I heard the colonel say sharply. "We've had nothing.... No! no one has been here with a watch.... You want an officer to come over to you?... But I haven't any one who knows where you are." A pause.
SECOND CHATTY SIGNALLER. Oh, aye. There was a wee THE F.O.O. Is that C Battery? There's SECOND CHATTY SIGNALLER. No, sir. This is Don Company. Weel, Jimmy, there was a couple whish-bangs came intil A CHEERFUL COCKNEY VOICE. Well, my lad, what abaht it? Hold the line, Brigade. Message to Staff Captain. "Ref. your S.C. fourr stroke seeven eight six, the worrking-parrty in question " Working-party?
I saw also, motionless amid the Austrian wire, a figure in Italian uniform, one of a patrol who had gone out four nights before, and had not returned. On the 12th I went out with a Sergeant, a Signaller and Corporal Savogna, a Canadian Italian, on a Front Line Reconnaissance on the northern side of the Vippacco, in the Second Army area.
"Yes, put that in," I replied quickly. Wilde detailed a signaller to accompany the driver of the cart, and, with Meddings and two of the servants walking behind, the journey commenced. A ten-minutes' hold-up occurred when Captain Denny of B Battery, a string of waggons behind him, shouted my name through the darkness.
"Here you," he shouted to a sailor, "bring Jones here at once." Jones was the yacht's expert signaller. He approached with a telescope and a code under his arm. After a prolonged gaze and a careful scrutiny of the code, he announced "This is how the message reads: 'Turks on board. Stopping Messina. For once the barrister was startled out of his usual quiet self-possession.
Two of the orderlies returned and reported that B and D Batteries had received my instructions and had started. With the return of the next orderly I explained where we were to go to the sergeant-major, and told him to move off. I would come along behind with the others. To my astonishment the signaller and the sentry came back without the brigade clerk.
The "Dresden" or "Karlsruhe," the German ships in the Atlantic, would only have a mouthful in any one of them, in fact in the whole four. They all anchored apart in a separate part of the harbor, and the signaller on the Admiral's ship amused himself by signalling, "Is your bar open?" "How is the Scotch?" Our men answered back in kind.
Apropos of Adjutants and Company Commanders, Private Wamphray, whose acquaintance we made a few pages back, was ultimately relieved of his position as a Company Signaller, and returned ignominiously to duty, for tactless if justifiable interposition in one of these very dialogues. It was a dark and cheerless night in mid-winter.
"Nothing if I can possibly avoid it," answered the Sapper firmly. "You select for an O.P. the most prominent house in the locality put a signaller on the top of it with a large flag wait till midday, when the sun is at its brightest, and then send a message back that the bully beef is bad. You " "Laddie," interrupted the gunner, "desist.
Shake your transmitter, do! Honkle, honkle, honk. Yang! BRIGADE HEADQUARTERS. Buzz it, my lad, buzz it! Ping, ping! Ping, ping! Ping, ping, ping! Ping GENERAL CHORUS. Stop that , , , buzzing! FIRST CHATTY SIGNALLER. Weel, Andra says tae the Sergeant-Major of Beer Company, says he THE ADJUTANT. Is that B Company? FIRST CHATTY SIGNALLER. No, sir; this is Beer Company. I said Beer Company!
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