Pat Ryan, of the Connaught Rangers, thought he ought to do something
to celebrate his birthday, which fell on Friday week. Without telling
a soul he went out of the trenches in the afternoon, and came back
after dusk with two big Germans in tow. How or where he got them
nobody knows. The captain asked how he managed to catch the two. “Sure
and I surrounded them, sorr,” was the answer: _A Gunner of the Royal
Artillery_.