The Hon. Aubrey Herbert, M. P. for South Somerset, a lieutenant in
the Irish Guards, describing his experience in North France, says:
"I was shot and was found by some German privates after about an
hour and a half.
"With other wounded men and officers I was taken away to a house
that had been converted into a temporary hospital after nightfall.
We remained prisoners in the hands of the Germans for eleven days,
until the French occupied the village where we lay and set us at
liberty.
"It is only fair to say that both on the battlefield and
subsequently we were all shown courtesy and great kindness by the
Germans, from all ranks, from Prussians and Bavarians alike."
He adds that from the general behavior of the British troops "one
might have supposed that they were engaged in autumn manoeuvres."