In the orders of the day made public at Bordeaux numerous cases of
bravery are cited. Two of them follow:
“Private Phillips of the Second Battalion of riflemen, during the battle
ran out under fire to his captain, who was mortally wounded, and brought
him in. Private Phillips went eight times to the firing line under
violent shelling to give water to the wounded and he also assisted his
commandant to rally riflemen dispersed by the enemy’s fire.
“Bugler Martin of the 14th Hussars, a member of a patrol commanded by
Lieutenant de Champigny, in a fierce skirmish with a German patrol,
seeing his commander wounded and captured, charged the German officer
who had made a prisoner of De Champigny, killed him with his own hand
and rescued De Champigny.”