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VICTOR VICTROLA
THE IDEAL ENTERTAINER.
A FAR EASTERN RECRUIT
AT THE FRONT.
GRAPHIC" STORY OF HIS EXPERIENCES,
The following account, written by a Far Eastern recruit known to many in Hong kong, has been communicated to us:--
Starting from August 4th, the day re-enlisted. I was the first man to rejoin the Scottish after the declaration of war: We had three weeks strenuous training in London, and then were drafted out to
our supports and then turned again and dravo them off altogether.
That is the history of the Scottish and the battle of Messines, our baptism
hours? Fenty fighting, no rest,
for: Four jolly heavy for one day's fighting, but the very lives; casualties 340 out of 1,000, German casualties were between 3,500/- 4.000, so we made up for the deaths of our men. It was awful, everywhere we went that night, Germans, Germans, Germana. One fired and bayoneted until one was absolutely covered in blood and smoke. without a seratch, and God only knows My brother and I both came through how Bayonets, bullets, everything seemeil
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I couldn't find the Scottish, so went off with the Worcestershire Regiment into the the Scottish were resting. I found them trenches for two days while the rest of eventually and had a day's rest, and an of Japan, Offcially Recommended by the the 4th we went off again to Ypres, and on the 5th went into the advanced Medical Colleges of The Imperial Universities trenches (we were in the advanced trenches with what remains of the Grenadier and of Tokyo and Kyoto. Irish Guards und Munster Fusiliers; there were only about 500 of them in all) and we were still in the fighting on the 13th, when I was sent out sick, being shelled all day by the German artillery and night attacks all night by the German infantry. Absolutely hellish. We were standing, and lying down to sleep in two feet of water for two days, and soaked through again and again by rain. God, it was appalling
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We were relieved the following night, so I hear from my brother. I came down to Ypres, to the Hospital, from there in a Red Cross moter to Popeingray (); two days there and from thence to Hozelenck Red Cross train, two days there. from (1) a day there, thence to Boulogne by SOLIGNUM there by hospital ship to Southampton, a home to be nursed. I have a mouth's leave night in hospital in Winchester, and so to get it in, but I don't think I can manage WOOD it in that time, because my cholitis is are quite gone now. Our casualties in the jolly bad, although my fever and ague London Scottish now amount to quite 500, half the regiment. The night of Messines the Germans we killed had just murdered bayoneted them all, and they set fire to our Doctor and wounded, the farm in which all our badly wounded in the trenches isn't so bad, although you were. They're pleasant people! Fighting are bound to be hit sometimes, perhaps BROWN, sooner than later.
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had tales told me by sisters, brothers,
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G. MOUSSION, think they can get any information from Lein. The old Spanish Inquisition days do, and these people are the cultured race 21e nothing compared to the things they that hope to rule the world We must win, we're going to, otherwise it means end of all things-England is at last,
Waking up.
Ty present bag of Germans is 20 killed, wounded, and some few prisoners, so I have had a good hack!
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not firing a shot in return, with only three A LAY OF THE TRENCHES. small guns supporting us. It was just
murder; man after man was shot, or hit
A resident of Woking has received from by shrapnel, and each chap had given up her son, an officer of the R.F.A., the hope and was waiting for his turi. God, following anusing verses written by one it was awful; and more so every time I of his men, Gunner Louis Smith: think of it. I was the extreme left hand
man of the line, and every shell burst with Our happy family consists of three- in 30 yards of me, and they came over about The Corporal, the Bombardier, and me. every other second. At least a dozen times
I was nearly buried by Jack Johnson In various climes it's been our fate to roam, shells, and the shrapnel and maxim bullets Till here together we have found a home. never stopped whistling about me. I gave It isn't furnished in the latest mode, up all hope that afternoon. My pack, a But then we trust it ain't a permanent abode. sort of bag on my back, was cut in two
by a piece of shrapnel about the size of a The roof was once, I think, a stable door; scup plate, and I was rolled over and of straw's the carpet that adorns the floor; over along the ground for at least fifteen yards. At dark, when the Germans stop. rei chelling us, we started to entrench our Eelves. We had had no staff orders all. that day, so we presumed that we haul And down the Corporal's nook his comments
10 slay where we were. At about 1 o'clock early morning, when we were just finish.
Tho walls are of a quite superior clay, That sticks to one, and won't be lured away. down those wulls the molting snow is
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ing our part of the trench, we suddenly We're somewhat limited for pace, 'tis true; found Germans behind us! Some dressed If I turn round, to mus: the other two, as Indians, with blackened facts even, And getting in and out becomes a bare, and others as Highlanders in kilts When one is rather wides than the door, Mind, this is all absolutely Gospel truth. But still we're not too slow in taking corer, I challenged them, and they said they When those confounded German souvenirs. were Scottish, some said Indians, and
some wanted to surrender. We finished
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them all off, about eighty, of which I In reminiscent mined we sip our tea bagged fourteen. They were within 20 The Corporal, the Bombardier, and me. yards of us when we first saw them. L
Wo hearken back to ors and Le Cateau' ; ' was in an advanced trench, some 100 yards wonder what's became of so-and-so;
hear that Nobby Johnson's sent a letter
in front of the rest of the Scottish, like
this-
A my trench with 40 others.
B remainder about 700 men.
To say they took a leg off, but he's better,
Pass up the poizey, if it's not all done
We found then that the Germans during But burk: "Eyes front. Ture out and man
the early night had got all round us by
your gun."
A and B, because the other English regi There goes the tes, the jam is on the floor; ments at A and B had retired at dusk I've stuck again my blessings on this door. that evening, and we, poor devile, had Three thousand yards, corrector 1-6–2, bad ne orders to move Twice that night And Fire"-My Gormar friends, a souvenir the whole Battalion were surrounded, once
for you.
by Prussian Guards, and once by Bavarians, and twice we źred and Derm falls the night, and alco fails the rain charged, and charged again, and drove. The sentries monat, we seek our home again them off. At dawn we were still in our And, clinging close the blessed warmth to trenches and then the Germans attacked keep, and
kee
os again, in front and on both sides, Seck brief oblivion in a firermless sleep, 25.000 of them to our 700, and after ten Till dawns the day upon the sodden trenches, minutes we had to retire and we did so. And calls to "Action front" our Army gradually about a mile, where we found
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