Vietnam or Thailand ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Updated: May 19, 2025
Sixty prisoners also were added to their bag. But the enemy was only surprised not done with. This was ground that had been a leaping-off place for his mighty rush in March 1918. Close behind lay country that had not been trod by Allied troops since the 1914 invasion. He counter-attacked fiercely, and at 5.10 A.M. a signaller roused me with the message.
I'll bet that's my Major wanting to know if he can't slack off a bit more, he continued, as the signaller called something about 'Wanted to speak here, sir. He went to the instrument and held a short conversation. 'Told you so, he said, when he returned to the infantry officer. 'No attack no shells. We're stopping again.
In practice, this means that the signaller, having wasted ten sulphurous minutes in a useless attempt to convey information through the medium of the human voice, next proceeds, upon the urgent advice of the gentleman at the other end, and to the confusion of all other inhabitants of the cavern, to "buzz" it, employing the dots and dashes of the Morse code for the purpose.
"Can't find him anywhere, sir," said the signaller. "Didn't you see him while you were there?" I asked the orderly who had been doing sentry. "No, sir. I saw no lights in that house where the office was, and there's no one there now." This was something unexpected, not to say perturbing. I turned to one of the cycle orderlies who stood by. "Go back and make a thorough search for Briercliffe.
Aris and nine others killed, and more than half the Company wounded. For some time Battalion Headquarters knew nothing of this disaster, and it was only when the Signaller L/Cpl. Woolley came back to report, that Col. Trimble heard what had happened. He at once ordered "D" Company to fill the gap, so as to protect the left flank of "C" Company, which he knew must be seriously exposed.
At the last I rolled limply on the floor, and woke to real life with a bruised nose and a great call to go on deck at once. "It's all right," said a voice in my booming ears. "Morgan and Laughton are worse than you!" I was gripping a rail. Mr. Pyecroft pointed with his foot to two bundles beside a torpedo-tube, which at Weymouth had been a signaller and a most able seaman.
'Yes, all over except for his father, or mother, or sweetheart, said the officer absently. The signaller stared. 'I meant the shellin', sir. 'Oh ah, yes; the shelling, Jackson. Yes, I dare say that's over for to-night, since they seem to have stopped now. 'P'raps we might see about some food, sir, said the signaller. 'Food to be sure, said the officer briskly.
The signaller saluted, gathered the articles mentioned, and went away in that clumping, rocking gait of the land peasant of Hundom. "Now," said the officer, "strip off your coat!" She turned scarlet, but he sprang to his feet and tore her coat from her.
I saw a lot of him both now and later on when we did many a strange hunt together for ammunition dumps in the most impossible of places. He was a tremendous walker and could get over really bad muddy ground at an amazing speed. I was destined also to see much of the Brigade Signaller, Lieut. A.E. Odell, who was quite a remarkable character.
Situated as I was at a distance of more than two miles from headquarters, upon an outlying spur of the Nanshan Heights, and quite alone, save for the companionship of a solitary assistant signaller, with only occasional curt orders from the General in reference to the signals which he wished me to transmit to our ships in the offing, I was naturally ignorant as to the critical pass at which we had arrived, and could only draw my conclusions from what I actually saw happening.
Word Of The Day
Others Looking