We were only 300 yards from a battery of German “death screechers,”
which naturally opened fire into us, doing great damage. We soon
silenced them, though. Worked round their flank and picked off the
gunners. Please don’t think I am boasting, but I picked off eight. I
had a splendid position. I was firing three hours before they hit me
seriously. When I was hit I didn’t care; my rifle was smashed to atoms
by a shell, but I was gloriously happy, having got my own back before
being put out of action: _A Private of the Sussex Regiment_.