Churchill Comes of Age by Hal Klepak

Author:Hal Klepak
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780750965538
Publisher: The History Press
Published: 2015-06-07T16:00:00+00:00

The 30th November was my 21st birthday, and on that day for the first time I heard shots fired in anger, and heard bullets strike flesh or whistle through the air …The firing seemed about a furlong away and sounded very noisy and startling. As, however, no bullets seemed to come near me, I was easily reassured … [later] close at hand, almost in our faces it seemed, a ragged volley rang out from the forest. The horse immediately behind me – not my horse – gave a bound … The bullet had struck between his ribs, the blood dripped on the ground, and there was a circle of dark red on his bright chestnut coat. He hung his head but did not fall. Evidently, however, he was going to die, for his saddle and bridle were soon taken off him. As I watched these proceedings I could not help reflecting that the bullet which had struck the chestnut had certainly passed within a foot of my head. So at any rate I had been ‘under fire’. That was something.33

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