I’m doing and going as I’m told, not worrying, but taking things as
they come. I’ve slept in barns, wool stores, cinemas, casinos, dock
sheds, and for a bit had the stars as a counterpane. The fighting has
been very fierce and close; as one pal said, “Oh! ain’t it ’ot?” We
have been outnumbered, sometimes 10,000 to 2000, but our boys stick to
them, and have played havoc with their “mass formations.” The Maxims
have cut them down like corn, and when we charge with fixed bayonets
see ’em run like rats. They will get no quarter from our “mob”: _Pte.
Bromfield, Royal Engineers_.