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battling singlehanded with 7 Germans he killed 6 with the bayonet & the last one they killed each other, according to the boys they had a very easy win as far as the Hun infantry went, they even met them coming over in mass formation with full packs up, & from papers captured their objective was Dickebusch nearly 6 miles away, their time for launching the attack was 10 min's too late for the boys were on them, & our wonderful & deadly barrage caught them & fairly butchered them, as the barrage swept over them they went to turn back but could not get near our wall of fire, so they were caught in a nice trap, a deadly barrage behind, & a more deadly foe in front for by this time the Batts had hopped over & were making for them, when the Huns saw them coming they were terrified threw down their rifles & run towards our chaps hands up & begging for Mercy. Some of them even grovelled