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Updated: May 21, 2025
He could stand it no longer and ran as fast as his legs would carry him over to the telephonist's hut; there he found Graham crouching alongside of his telephone in the folds of a blanket over his head and face.
We reached our old telephonist's hut on the hill, looked around for Lieutenant Matthews, but he wasn't there; he had been wounded and taken prisoner. We established lines of communication at once, to hold the Germans back while we built up our own front.
Again came the running bursts and puffing white smoke, and satisfied this time with their line, position, and distance, the Forward Officer shouted for 'Gun-fire, jumped down and across to the telephonist's shelter-pit. 'I'm putting a belt of fire just ahead of our line, he shouted, curving his fingers about his lips and the mouthpiece in an attempt to shut out the uproar about them.
Information on aircraft activity was given to us over a permanently manned phone line connected to No.11 Fighter Group at Uxbridge and the lucky man who was given the job of listening sat in the middle of the room on an office type swivel chair wearing a telephonist's head-and-breast-set doing nothing but waiting.
As he yelled his orders I was passing the telephonist's hut and I threw it in to him, "Here, Graham, here's some honey for you, it's great," and continued my run down to the guns, the bees still following us up. McLean laid his comb on a pile of shells beside the gun, and the heat of the August day caused the honey to trickle over the shells.
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