When I found I could not walk I gave it up. Just after I got my first
view of the Germans. They were coming out of a wood 400 yards away all
in a heap together, so I thought as I was done for I would get a bit
of my own back, and so I started pumping a bit of lead into them. I
stuck there for about three-quarters of an hour, and fired all my own
ammunition and a lot belonging to two more wounded men who were close
to me--about 300 rounds altogether, and as it was such a good target I
guess I accounted for a good lot of them. Then I suddenly discovered I
could walk, and so I set off to get back. I had to walk about 150 yards
in the open, with shrapnel bursting abound me all the way: _Private G.
A. Turner_.