Lewis war diary, August 1917-March 1919 / James Ray Lewis - Page 122
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frightened either. They had their hands at the high port, and if one just shifted his rifle because his shoulder was getting tired, their hands would go up like jumping jacks and they would clamour "Hamerad Hamerad". All this time there were a few bullets whitting around but not many. Presently we came on a place like a big rabbit warren, where some of the 19th were held up by a machine gun which kept spitting bullets from out of the fog in front. Here said Scotty, you act as a bayonet man, and I'll be bomber, and we started off, what we were going to do wasn't quite clear, but luckily the machine gun stopped, and we didn't need to win a V,C, or a Wooden Cross even. So we picked up our loads and started along the road again, there were droves of prisoners coming back, I thought we had captured the whole German army, so we had the one in front of us. 2 of our men used to escort 50 or so out at a time, one in front, and one in the rear of the batch. The sun rose and shone through the now rising mist as red as blood and it was a strange sight. Our infantry straggling forward and prisoners running in, men here there and everywhere. Around his trenches the ground had