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Besides our chum and heavens knows what others, he had sniped the road along which relief parties were passing up and down; and that same night one of the soldiers of an infantry battalion of the Warwicks, winding its way to the front trenches, got his death from a bullet squarely in the neck; and the Germans having through him gotten an absolutely accurate range, our gun was wiped out by a single shell, together with two members of the crew.
He tried a long sweep of low shots, just skirting the tops of the semi-completed excavations ... got home every twenty yards or so, clean through the neck or forehead. The Normans settled down, opened fire steadily and played havoc amongst the advanced enemy machine-guns. His progress stopped, the opposing lines sniped at each other. The Normans were in their element they knew how to shoot.
It would have been good to have the ability of Kruger Bobs to give audible token of his appreciation of Paddy's bounty. Somewhat refreshed, he straightened in his saddle. "Now be careful, Kruger Bobs. There are Boers in these hills," he warned his companion; "and it would never do for us to be sniped." Kruger Bobs came close to his side.
Baker said: No one who really saw the President in action in Paris, saw what he did in those grilling months of struggle, fired at in front, sniped at from behind and no one who saw what he had to do after he came home from Europe in meeting the great new problems which grew out of the war will for a moment belittle the immensity of his task, or underrate his extraordinary endurance, energy, and courage.
One day they asked me to come and look at the dead body of one of their field cornets, whom they alleged to have been done to death whilst wounded by our Lancers. I went and saw the man, and at a glance saw that the wounds were not lance wounds at all, but ripping bullet wounds. He had been sniped by some Australian riflemen from a high kopje whilst in a valley.
A particularly sharp turn to the right and the despatch rider rode a couple of hundred yards in front of a battery in action that the Germans were trying to find. A "hairpin" corner round a house followed. This he would take with remarkable skill and alacrity, because at this corner he was always sniped. The German's rifle was trained a trifle high.
An army which is continually sniped and harassed becomes embittered, and a General feels called upon to take those harsher measures which precedent and experience suggest. That such measures have not been pushed to an extreme by the British authorities is shown by the fact that the captured guerilla has been made a prisoner of war unlike his prototype, the franc-tireur.
Young M'Loughlin, son of the famous John M'Loughlin of Oregon, coming up the Columbia overland from Okanagan to Kamloops with a hundred and sixty men, four hundred pack-horses and a drove of oxen, had three men sniped off by Indians in ambush and many cattle stolen. At Big Canyon on the Fraser two Frenchmen were found murdered.
Some snipers even kept a book of their "kills," with entries such as "June 1st, 9-30 a.m. Boche sentry looking over, shot in shoulder, had grey hair almost bald very red face and no hat." It was just the right spirit, and it had its results. Autumn, 1915, saw us hardly daring to look over the top for fear of being sniped; Autumn, 1916, saw us masters, doing just what we pleased, when we pleased.
And up to us came hoarse whispered curses as our ole man tongue-lashed us for a full minute in gross and detail. "'Lie quite still, Colonel, I whispered, 'the Hun swine-dogs may send up a flare if they hear us. "But no flare flared, and no sniper sniped. "'This game gives me the blooming creeps, old Tommy muttered shudderingly, thinking of Huns and guns three miles deep all round.
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