| Show FIGHTER LIVES 35 DAYS IN HOLE british privates experience considered most remarkable of war AIDS HIS HELPLESS COMRADE live lives s on food taken from dead bodies bodier wanders too ton far afield and Is taken prisoner by germans london private peters ot of the british army lived five weeks with a helpless comrade in a hole within thirty yards of the german trenches their experience Is considered the most remarkable of the war it wits was in 1917 at Crol selles that the fifty nien men then remaining of private peters comp company ilay were ordered to dig in the spot was a sunken road the men had passed their objective and run into their own barrage fire they fell like ninepins when private peters looked up from his digging only ills his captain himself and a comrade named mcgunness McG ulness remained then the captain was shot dead and the comrade fatal fatally lyu wounded private peters went out for a look around and found a stretcher bearer with a shattered thigh ile he hauled him into the dugout the stretcher bearer had iodine and his wound was kept tree free of lufte infection tion that night flight two german officers came along but we shammed dead call and they passed on briskly for the british stuff wits was coming coining over says peters telling his story shrapnel lodged on top of our dugout off t bits found their way inside T the he german officers stood over us the next n night but they never searched our hiding place there were sixty dead men lying about outside each night I 1 went out and took away their iron rations and biscuits the first few days we were short of water vater then it rained every day for a while and I 1 water in mackintosh sheets 1 I made a stove of a bully beet beef tin broken br oke n candles candies find a flannel rag caught the rays of the lie sun with a periscope glass when it shone sholie and so lighted our stove we had hot coffee cowa cocja and beef cubes this way but we soon were reduced to rifle ride oil and wood for fuel food of dead gives give out the night came when the food of the dead soldiers outside had all been taken and I 1 went further afield with a compass I 1 got lost nud fell over a german telephone wire I 1 was captured and sent to Genn germany noy where I 1 was held until armistice day taylor after peters capture wag examined by the germans german who aho lifted his sound leg but he sho sha Aimed dead and they passed on then he be crawled through gli I 1 he file german trenches which aich were by that time thinly held over the bathed wire across no mans land find and to the british lines but tits ills leg was so long unset that lie he will never walk alk right again |
