The Motor-Man

There are two of us in charge of each motor, because the roads being

very bad our hands and wrists get awfully tired holding the wheel, and

we relieve each other. Ours is most important work, for it has been

said an army marches on its stomach--that is to say, an army is not

much use if it is hungry; therefore, if I have food wagons attached

to my motor I must be on the spot when wanted--with ammunition it is

just the same, of course. When our ammunition wagons get empty other

full ones are brought up and ours are filled. We never go back to fetch

anything; so it is the fighting line all the time. When the battle

is over--and some of them have been very long, lasting over days and

days--we get what rest and sleep we can, and have a sound meal. If we

have been fortunate enough we have had sundry naps during lulls in the

fighting, and have been able to get our food in the same manner: _A

Salvationist Motor man, Royal Field Artillery_.

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