Elmore County Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1910-1915, 1914-12-05
DEEDS OF HERO|SM
Two Instances Of Bravery Told
by Wounded Soldiers.
British Officer Shot In Head insisted
on Retaining Commandments
OF Sergeant by Captain Of
His Company.
BY HERBERT TEMPLE.
European Manager Of the Information.
al News Service.

al News Service.
London There can be no reason.
able doubt that as much heroism is
being displayed in the titanic war now
convulsing Europe as was seen in 9th.
er great wars, but the public hears
little about 1t, because OF the strict
regulations governing war correspon'
dents and war news.
A few individual cases may chance
TO be heard of. Others will be known
only to the recording angel. Two In
stances of extraordinary bravery on
the part of officers are mentioned by
two wounded soldiers now lying In
the London hospital in the course OF
the narratives of their own adven.
lures
One Of them, splendid fellow, Of
the Royal West Kent regiment, said;
1--WE were In a scrubby position just
outside Mons from Saturday afternoon
till Monday morning After four hours
Of action each of our six big guns was
put out of action Either the gunners
were killed or wounded or the guns
themselves damaged. For the rest Of
the time--that is, until Monday morn
ing, when we retired-we had to stick
the German fire without being able to
retaliate 1t was bad enough to stand
this incessant banging away, but 1t
made 1t worse not to be able to reply.
"All day Sunday and all Sunday
night the Germans continued to shrap-
mel us. At night it was just hellish.
| We had constructed some entrench.
ment but 1t didn't afford much cover,
and our losses were very heavy. On
Monday we received the order to re.
tire to the south of the town and some
hour later, when the roll was called,
1t was found that we had 300 dead
alone, including four officers.
"Then an extraordinary thing hap
pened, Me and some of my pals be-
gan to dance We we're Just dancing
for Joy at having escaped with our
skins, and to forget the things we'd
seen a bit when bang! and there came
a shell from the blue and burst and
got, / should think, quite twenty OF
us.
What we would have done without
our second in command | don't know.
During the Sunday firing he got hit in
the head He had two wounds through
the cap in the front and two behind
ana lost lot of blood. Two of our
fellows helped bind up his head and
offered to carry him back, but he said
1t isn't 80 bad. I'll be all right SOON p"
A stalwart chap Of the Cheshiree
here broke in; "Our Cheshire chaps
were also badly cut up. Apart from
the wounded, several men got concus-
sion of the brain by the mere explo-
sions. 1t was awful! Under the
cover of their murderous artillery fire,
the German infantry advanced to with
In three and five hundred yards of our
position. With that we we're given
the order to fix bayonets, and stood
up for the charge. That did 1t for the
/
German infantry! They turned tall
and ran for their lives.
Our captain cried out: Now you've
got em, men!' But we hadn't. Their
artillery began with that to fire more
hellish than ever and before you could
think what to do fresh lots Of the
'sausages' came along, and we had to
beat a retreat
During the retreat one of our SER
geants was wounded and fell. With
that our captain ran back and tried to
lift him. AS he was doing so he was
struck in the foot and fell over. We
thought he was done for, but he
scrambles up and drags the sergeant
along until couple of US chaps goes
over to help 'em in. You should have
seen his foot when he took his boot
OFF, mean the captains. II was all
smashed"
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