GORDON HIGHLANDERS IN BATTLE
A WITHERING ORDEAL MAGNIFICENT CHARGE THROUGH THE FIRE ZONE London, January 17. Sergeant-Master Hands, a Gordon Highlander, in a lotter, narrates how tho- Gordons -were ordered to storm a trench, which was loopliolcd and nttcd with burned wire entanglements, while Uv» Scmf* geiaed a wood.
•After a hellish' fire from 270 British guns for forty-five minutes the Gordons charged through a hail of machine-gun and riflo fire. Tho men dropped in heaps, but tho tartans kept on tho bloody struggle, and iron tho first .German trenches. . When tho Gordons mustered in a dip: within twenty yards of the main German position it was found that 55 per cent, had fallen. Tho Gordons retreated, carrying tho wounded, but Field-Marshal Sir John French, and two generals, who witnessed tho storming, said: "The Gordons had made history, and had accomplished more than'was expected." Sarpsant Hands luUle;—"Tbu' Dnigai , t jvas a more fleabito,"
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Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2362, 19 January 1915, Page 5
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153GORDON HIGHLANDERS IN BATTLE Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2362, 19 January 1915, Page 5
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