On September 14, 1916, at Angle Wood on the Somme, the 168th (London)
Brigade Signals were unloading a limber on a slope, on top of which was
a battery which Jerry was trying to find. One of his shells found us,
knocking all of us over and wounding nine or ten of us (one fatally).
As the smoke and dust cleared, our Cockney sergeant (an old soldier
whose slogan was "You must have dis_cip_line") gradually rose to
a sitting position, and, whipping out his notebook and pencil,
called "Nah, then, oo's wounded?" and calmly proceeded to write down
names.--_Wm. R. Smith (late R.E. Signals), 231 Halley Road, Manor Park,
E.12._