The Chesterfield advertiser. [volume] (Chesterfield C.H., S.C.) 1884-1978, 1918-11-07
They Potted Huns by Guess Work.

They Potted Huns by Guess Work.
they crawled back just before day
light. but sometimes they were out 81
hours at stretch. They took great
pride In the number of Germans they
knocked over, and If our men did not
get eight or ten they thought they had
not done a good nights work. OF
course 1t was not Wholesale killinC.
like machine gunning, but 1t was very
useful, because our SniperS were al
ways laying for the German snipcrS.
and when they got Snipcr Fritz they
saved just SO many of our lives.
The LimeyS have n great little ex-
preston that means lot: Garry on"
They say it IS a cockney expression.
When a captain. falls in action, his
words are not message to the girl
he left behind him or any dope about
his gray-haired mother, but Garry on,
Lieutenant WhOsis." If the lieutenant
gets his it Is Garry on, Sergeant
Jacks" and SO on us far as 1t goes.
So the words used to mean, "Take
over the command and do the Job
right" But now they mean not only
that but keep up your courage, and
30 to it." One man will say 1t to
another sometimes when he thinks the
first man is getting downhCartcd but
more often, if he is Limcy, he will
start kidding him.
Our men, of course, did not say
"Carry on," and in fact they did not
have any expression in French that
meant exactly the same thing But
they used to cheer each other along
nll right, and they passed along the
command when 1t was necessary, too
1 wonder what expression the Ameri.
can troops will use. (You notice !
do not call them SummiesD y
took my turn Mt listening post with
the rest of them, of course. A listen
ing post is any good position .out in
No Mans Land, and Is always held by
two men. Their job Is to keep a live
ear on Fritz and In case they hear any
thing that sounds very much like an
attack one pnan runs back to his lines
and the other stays to hold back the
Boches as long as he can. You can
figure for yourself which is the most
healthful job.
AS many times as I went on listen
ing-post duty I never did get to feel
ing homelike there exactly. You have
to lie very still, Of course, as Fritz 1.
listening, too, and q move may NEAR
bullet In the ribs. SO, lying on tn,
ground with hardly q change of posi-
tion, the whole lower part of my body
would go to sleep before l had beer
at the post very long. l used to bra:
a lot about how fast could run, 81
l had my turn as the runner, whicl
suited me all right. But every tim,
l got to n listening post and started
to think about what / would do i
Fritz should come over and wondered
how good runner he was, l took
long breath and said, "Feet, do you
duty" And 1 was strong on duty.
After / had done my stunt in tn,
frOnt-line and reserve trenches l wen
back with my Company to billctS, bu
| had only been there Tor a day or tw,
| before / was detached and detailed [,
| the artillery position to the right of us
| where both the British and Frencl
had mounted naval guns. There wer
guns of all calihcrS there. both navn
and field nioc.s and 7 oot - oood loor
ot tha fomous "75,e which orn IN,
| hos; nv. IN trc vorIJ in INV rstir,
tion and the one thin" tlot save,
yor,Iun
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do was six. The American ihrrr-incI
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