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Updated: May 19, 2025
The fire slackened. The attack had ebbed away; our fellows were holding their ground. A few, very few, little dots had run back over that green patch the others had passed down into the world of darkness. A signaller was flag-wagging from a peak about the left centre of our line: "The boys will never forget the Queen Elizabeth's help" was what he said. Jack Churchill was right.
More prisoners kept coming in; the brigade-major's telephone rang furiously; a heavily-moustached infantry signaller, with a bar to his Military Medal, just back from the eastern side of Combles, was telling his pals how an officer and himself had stalked a Hun sniper. "He was in a hole behind some trees," he said, "and we were walkin' along, when he hit old Alf in the foot "
THE F.O.O. They are in Square number Whang! THE F.O.O. Shut up! They are in Square FIRST CHATTY SIGNALLER. Hallo, Headquarters! Is the Adjutant there? Here's the Captain tae speak with him. AN EAGER VOICE. Is that the Adjutant? REGIMENTAL HEADQUARTERS. No, sirr. He's away tae his office. Hold the line while I'll THE EAGER VOICE. No you don't! Put me straight through to C Battery quick!
They traced their descent from a mythical plate-layer who had worked on the Sone Bridge when railways were new in India, and they valued their English origin. Michele was a Telegraph Signaller on Rs. 35 a month. The fact that he was in Government employ made Mrs. Vezzis lenient to the shortcomings of his ancestors.
When Barry entered the Battalion Headquarters, he found only Major Bayne and Captain Neil, with a signaller and a couple of runners, completing the arrangements for the relief. "You! Pilot!" exclaimed the major, as he gripped his hand. "Now what the devil brought you here?" "Couldn't help it, major. Simply had to come. I have been trying to get you all day," said Barry.
The result was that we had as capable and reliable a set of "Numbers One" and "B.C.A.'s" as could be found anywhere. The men thoroughly appreciated the amount of trust reposed in them and never failed us. Furthermore, when I joined the Battery there was hardly a man who was not a trained specialist, either as a Signaller, Gunlayer or B.C.A.
This question was transmitted in a slightly varied form by heliograph signal to our comrades south of the Tugela one day, and the answering flashes came back, "You are heroes; not " Here the message was interrupted by clouds, and lost in a series of confused dashes which the receiving signaller could not read.
What wi' wadin' to the knees in the trench mud, getting soaked through wi' rain, not 'aving a decent meal all day, crawlin' about in mud an' muck, an' gettin' chivvied an' chased all over the landscape wi' shells an' shrapnel an' machine-guns an' rifles, I've just about 'ad enough o' this King an' Country game. The Signaller paused a moment.
The other signaller on duty was buried behind the flag-locker, probably intending that it should be thought that he was busy putting away the flags used in the last hoists, though that might have been finished a full hour ago.
The signaller "on duty" one M'Gurk was extracted from the heap and put under arrest for sleeping at his post. The enormity of his crime was heightened by the fact that two undelivered messages were found upon his person. Divers pains and penalties followed. Bobby supplemented the sentence with a homily on the importance of vigilance and despatch.
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