Two of our R.A.M.C. men were bringing in a badly wounded trooper on
a stretcher, when a fiendish fire was opened on them by a party of
Germans posted on a hill about a mile off. Both of the bearers were
hit, and though they strove manfully to keep up they collapsed from
loss of blood, and the wounded man toppled over with them. A score of
our men rushed out to their assistance, but some of them were shot
down before they reached the stretcher. Four reached the stretcher and
brought it in safely under a hellish fire. All the rest of the wounded
were got in safely: _Private H. Sykes_.