HLI Chronicle 1915 - The Royal Highland Fusiliers

HIGHLAND LIGHT INFANTRY CHRO~ICLE.
overcrowded-till I got to my appointed
trench, which I found no better, as it was
only 200 yards from those Germans who
were on the left of Knight. We were later
warned that another attack was expected,
and, shortly after, one of my patrols ran in '
and said "They are coming!" So I ran
along the trench, waking up the men and getting
them ready. A bullet came through a
man's head next me and struck me on the
temple, and I was led away a long. walk to
the ambulance, and taken to Estarres, where
I stayed that night, then on to l\'[erville,
and thence by French hospital 'train to
Boulogne. The men had been very good, doing
excellent work in attending to the wounded
all day. One man was quite, hurt because I
wouldn't let him go out and bringjn a German
who was lying at least 100 yards away and
quite in the open. 'They had had no issue of
water since the 11th, it being then (when I
came away) the 13th.
A GALLANT Tommy, ha;ving received from
England an anonyriJlous gift of socks, entered,
them at once, for he was about to und!;lrtake
a heavy march. He was soon prey to the
most excruciating agony, and when, a mere
cripple, he drew off his foot-gear at'the end of
a terrible day, he discovered inside the toe of
the sock what had once been a piece of stiff
writing paper, now reduced to pulp, and on it
appeared in bold, feminine hand the almost
illegible benediction r :-" God bless the wearer
of this pair of socks ! "
THE recruit was having his first turn on
sentry duty. "Now. remember your salutes,"
the corporal warned him. "If you see a
lieutenant, wearing one star, slope arms. For
a captain, with two stars, slope arms also.
The major has a crown on his straps, and you
present arms. For the colon~l, who has stars
and a crown, you present arms, and turn out
the guard." When he was left alone the recruit
went over these orders again and again.
Suddenly his mnsing was interrupted by the
approach of an officer. This ·was the general,
and t~e recruit did not know what to do for
him.'" And which might you be 1 " he asked
bluntly, unable to recognise the "badge of the
officer's rank. "I'm th13 general," replied the
officer affably. ., Sure, now, and ye a·re 1 "
exclaimed the recruit in consternation. "Then
ye'l1 want something big. How'd it do if I
give ye a bayonet exercise 1 "
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