or request came for volunteers for a reconnoitering patrol. Of course I couldn't be out of this piece of promising sport, so after asking the Adjutant if I could come, and gaining his consent, I picked up my rifle and 50 rounds of ammunition, and w
I did. We then found to our surprise that two were missing. We sent the remainder back to the trenches, and we proceeded out in search of them. We had gone about a mile further on, and were just turning round to come back to our own lines, when
standing about 200 yards away. The road itself was flanked by hedges about 4 feet high. We jumped through a gap, and on turning the corner we found a ditch running parallel to the road, and just beneath the hedge. We ran along this ditch and got
inter)esting for both the officer in charge of the party, and also his men, were gesticulating, and making a lot of noise.  It was jolly lucky that our "Adjutant" understood German, for one could hear everything what they were talking about, t
their own lines, and then proceeded in the direction of ours, which we reached about 9pm, 5 hours after the specified time. The "Adjutant" went to report to head-quarters, and I proceeded to my own trench, and saw the "boys", who all thought we ha
for about 15 minutes, but they did hardly any harm to us, as they were much too high. The only damage done was, killing cattle, and smashing tiles of the houses about twenty yards in our rear.  During the remainder of that night, they attacked
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