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Updated: June 21, 2025
Fritz was sending 'em over by the 'undreds, whizz-bangs an' 'eavy stuff all mixed up gorblimy, 'e don't 'alf give yer what for!" There was a temporary lull in the conversation and then a small, wiry, spiteful looking Cockney spoke. He had reddish hair and big round spectacles of the army pattern. "I didn' 'alf do it on a Fritz afore I was wounded!
Then ping! or whizz-bang! and that's the end of him, and so the girl is left." "On the other hand," said I, "you must remember that the girl may hold very strong opinions and take pings and whizz-bangs very deliberately into account." Boyce helped himself to another whisky and soda. "It's a matter for the individual conscience. I decided one way.
Attempts made by day and night to bury some of these bodies had to be given up, as the enemy swept the parapets of both trenches, on the least sign of movement, with "whizz-bangs." The Western Ontario Battalion suffered horribly, a constant stream of stretchers coming through our lines, starting with daybreak.
The Relief was carried out without interference from the enemy except for Battalion Headquarter Officers, who had to leave Loisne Chateau at the gallop. Salvoes of whizz-bangs were arriving at frequent intervals, and there was just time to mount and gallop 300 yards down the road between the bursts.
"Whizz-bangs," was the corporal's laconical remark. We had passed the German road barrage, and were on our way to peace and safety. We climbed the little white road which led through the battery positions now almost silent, topped the crest, and dipped into Sailly-au-Bois.
Behind the lines during those first battles, but later, in 1918, when the enemy came nearly to the gates of Amiens, a stronghold of the Australians, who garrisoned it and sniped pigeons for their pots off the top of the towers, and took no great notice of "whizz-bangs" which broke through the roofs of cottages and barns.
We could hear the bombs exploding. The enemy replied by sending 'whizz-bangs' in the vicinity of the trench in which we were taking refuge. Some of them burst within a yard or two of us; but we crouched behind the parapet, and there were no casualties. "At about 12.30 this morning, when the raid was over and things had quieted, we emerged from the trench and went back to the job.
Clearly they had said to themselves, "We must not walk about here except in twos or threes or we shall draw a shell from one of those Verfluchte British whizz-bangs." And so those Germans strolled as we did from their breakfast to their daily work. France, May. Gallipoli had its own special difficulties for aeroplanes.
These are called "light stuff" and "whizz-bangs" now, in army parlance. They throw only an eighteen-pound shell which carries three hundred bullets, but so fast that they chase one another through the air. There has been so much talk about the need of heavy guns, you might think that eighteen-pounders were too small for consideration.
Sometimes they skirt a wood or hedge, sometimes they keep under the lee of an embankment, sometimes they proceed across the open, with the stealthy caution of persons playing musical chairs, ready to sit down in the nearest shell-crater the moment the music in the form of a visitation of "whizz-bangs" strikes up. It is difficult to say which kind of weather is least favourable to this enterprise.
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