MAN WHO SAT ON BURSTING BOMB

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2376, 4 February 1915, Page 7

MAN WHO SAT ON BURSTING BOMB

How a British soldier sat npon an ssploding bomb and survived is told by .-"Eye-witness" in his latest narrative of deeds at the,front. --In the rush to avoid.a bomb flung by the enemy, two of our men fell over each other, and <oae.actually sat upon the bomb It exploded. Wheu the smoke cleared ■away the man was discovered to' have escaped with very alight injuries to himself; but bis trousers were torn to ehreds, to the great amusement of his comrades, who greeted the incident with shouts of laughter Shortly afterwards another soldier, in trying to escape round a traverse in a. hurry, sat down on a bomb, which, however, failed to detonate. This game of bomb-throw-ing is not confined to one side, as the Germans could testify. Recently the Germans displayed a little more activity along our line;'and en our extreme left, as well as south of the Lys, there was a decided increase of E-rtillery fire. On the left, two of their guns were caught in the open by our artillery as they were apparently changing position under cover of a. rain storm. One was knocked out and the other w.as abandoned. In this part of the field also occurred one of thoee strange incidents at close quarters. , infantry officer who :-yalked up -Jfcgl. German treiich found all its As a''momenta of his visit he carried off a bayonet.