The book The British Soldier His Courage And Humour was written by author Joseph Edward Harry Here you can read free online of The British Soldier His Courage And Humour book, rate and share your impressions in comments. If you don't know what to write, just answer the question: Why is The British Soldier His Courage And Humour a good or bad book?
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They succeeded in doing so, but the officer, who stuck to the fort as a captain to his sinking ship, was made a prisoner. A German prisoner told about a Lancashire Fusilier who had been cut off and refused to sur- render to two hundred Germans. He lay on the ground and kept firing away until he hadn't a cartridge left, and as his bayonet was gone he stood up with folded arms while they shot him down. A corporal of the Fusilier Brigade held a company of Germans at bay for two hours by firing at ...them from different points, and so making them think they had a crowd to face. He was getting on very well until a party of cavalry outflanked him, and as they were right on top of him there was no GALLANTRY OF INDIVIDUALS 71 deceiving as to his " strength, " so he bolted, and the Germans took the position he had held so long. Rev. Percy Wyndham Guinness, Chaplain to the Forces, 3rd Cavalry Brigade, was awarded a D. S. O. , because on November 5th he brought Major Dixon, i6th Lancers, when mortally wounded to an ambu- lance under heavy fire, and on the afternoon of the same day, being the only individual with a horse in the shelled area, took a message under heavy fire from 4th Hussars to headquarters of 3rd Cavalry Brigade.
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