Show RELATE STORIES OF THE BIG PUSH wounded british soldiers tell of thrilling moments in charges in Pio Plo ardy c 7 i BULLETS STOPPED BY BOOK machine gunner la Is killed in a tree artillery work Is marvel of ex find few rifles rifle in captured trenches london this city la is now dully daily being thrilled fly by tile stories ot of 1110 great push on oil the coluille ille which tile wounded soldiers have brought back with them sorely wounded mounded as is many of them are arc and utter after a journey which till nil the core care nindo made barely endurable the e men still tingle with itil tile thrill af 9 tile tho cipfl go allaf lalit Js in a nil 11 will of the 0 glorious rush with which they carried every obstacle wo we went over lit in grand style said n sergeant recoiling the assault on Mont montauban auban and found place in III nn an awful mess most of the alio houses lio had been knocked head over heels the only ones I 1 saw standing ding were a couple of As aa wo we come on we vio saw lots of germans running out of lip back of the village but there plenty of them about tile alio ruins wo we divided the up into groups of six but its as wo we neared tile wo we joined up again my five pain and myself saw some huns films in a ground floor door room so BO we w dropped it stills mills bomb through the ho window und and walt wait for tin nn answer As we turned the ho corner we ivo saw rt corinna lying round tile end of a willi hed got a machine gun and had made H q little emplacement with bricks lid turned tile tho damani thing on me awl go got me in tile tho foot it stop me though und and when I 1 was getting nojir to him I 1 felt two kicks over tile tho heart I 1 I 1 wait waft to set be what happened but imply went nt lit him and bayone bayoneted tei hlin him I 1 go gg on much further so I 1 silt ant down to see eco what was tit In larnnie larn book stopped bullets my ty foot was pretty bad but when n I 1 looked tit at my left hand breast pocket eisaw I 1 saw two holes in it I 1 opened my lay pocket and found hint flint two bullets and gone through my metal having mirror through my pocket caw cape and had nosed their way into a book I 1 was carrying the two bullets after piercing the mirror and cose case had find met and fused into one lump JUMP of metal the germans to bo be nil agea from sixteen to fifty I 1 should say some of them licin came up tip crying out alit that ay bil hod anil no food for live I 1 days ono one of our boys did wondern with tile lio ho ans three Gerin tins lio ho caught them up and bayon bayoneted etea two ns no lie ho swung round lie lift hit tho the third man town down avith alth tho the butt of ilia his rifle As W we 6 were vere goina coln into we a runner gunner 4 u a free hed got iho 1110 little platform you ever BOW painted so tant ahk it ans va s almost fl invisible visible wo we shot jilin him but lie bo t fall clear tho the last we saw of film was that lint ho he was hanging fly by lila ilia boots from tho the tree tile tho spirit of our boys boya was splendid they simply loved the fun onti on of them got blown up by n iia he seemed pretty dozed dazed but ho he picked himself up tip anol came along all holl ha sald was oil oh thero there must be a war after nil all I 1 sup suppose poso picked OM off two by two wo we had curried carried tho the first two linck and on getting into lie ho third wo we saw tho the germans coining up from tile tho two exits of n deep dugout ond pairing olt off down the trench our platoon corn coin dunnder get ojito ilia trench pud picked ahti enemy off ns ag they amb out lie ile lind find tile tho mouth of the dugout on either of him ray eay fifteen yards away ile ho was ns as cool os no a cucumber lie he turned from right to left rind fired fire just ns as if lie wits ans in a shooting gallery it was aoa th best bit of fancy shooting ive seen A sergeant major of the middlesex speaking of the work of english arall lery said flioy they were simply magnificent ent lind and as we WB advanced they lifted c d trench by trench tile tho battalion arnt over and on in ono style it was junt like a and tile the men felt confident as they know knew that largo large reserves roves reves met ves were behind them A corporal in tile tho Northum northumberland berlane gave a i picture of tile pre aslon with which tile the was car led out just on time lie ho said the nir flis lines wont went away not hurrying a bli just taking inking it easy then carno came thi second line of course there wert wen gailis lint but these were noon boon filled then ant went lie third line nud aud I 1 followed ur ul the sup supports everything wom wa ing al tho the nr artillery tillery was vas efting froni trench reach to trench french rind wo we were follow 11 g on step by step it was just like beld day tho the with bombl till nd kept delit on oil coming coining niona alon I 1 in HH cheerful ns as and then intel in tile the day I 1 got moved back anck into out oui own front lines stud ind on to the dress ing station ono man who had been at Al iloni arrich etl said that lint tj file he german trenches they the found plenty of men but as far ni 04 they could judge bombs were tile the chief wv allons not rifles several inez woke spoke of the comparatively arbiol riber lumber of cf rifles la in the trenched tren cheA |