Australians on the Western Front 1918, Volume 2 by David W. Cameron

Author:David W. Cameron
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781743485798
Publisher: Penguin Random House Australia

The Germans were advancing in rushes on our immediate front . . . The remaining men of ‘A’, ‘B’ and ‘C’ Companies, who were few and mixed, put up an effective fire, showing themselves over the road despite a fierce barrage of ‘woolly bears’ [shrapnel shells] and machine gun fire . . . Enfilading and rear fire from our left were playing havoc and I definitely ordered the men about me to retire to a line of trenches some 200 yards [180 metres] to the rear. These presented some cover and a field of fire. Major McDonald and Captain Barlow were not on the embankment when I gave this order. Soon the remainder of the men were racing for the rear trench and McDonald and Barlow did not know of the retirement until I personally shouted the information into the culvert. We raced after the men but Barlow was shot down before going fifty yards [45 metres].30

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