Half the horses of L Battery Royal Artillery got smashed, and we had
to bung our poor old tired ones to fill up. Only a few gunners were
left, but they stood by firing still and singing “Onward, Christian
Soldiers.” Then the Germans charged, and our gunners did a bunk, but
not before they had driven spikes into the guns so as to make them
useless to the enemy. They said they guessed they would get them back
in a day or two, and if they did they could repair them easy enough. The
Germans don’t know these tricks, and we can do them down any time: _A
Driver of the 4th Ammunition Column_.