REAKFAST BEFORE FIGHT
9 : AN INCIDENT FROJI THE FRONT. Coolness in warfare is a good thine '•'My advice to everybody," remarked a British officer at the front, "is first to make sure of a>£ood breakfast, and then get the time to eat it." An Irish .officer, during the recent fighting at •JLa. Bassee, certainly acted up to this .Advice. He was out with a patrol of j25 men, and two orderlies, and when .about two miles from camp firing startled between them and tie British lines. ! One _of the orderlies galloped to him jfor instructions. "Why worry?" said the officer, coolly lighting a cigarette. "They're not actually firing at us yet." The orderly pointed out that it would take the men all their time to get back ."to camp. "Well; we're here now," replied the Officer—it was a farm house—"and I can't fight on an empty stomach. Orderly, make tea and pass some chop!" The chop bos was opened, tea was made, and' everybody had an excellent •breakfast, while the bullets whistled and sang a little distance away. Then 'the little party started back for the British lines, which they reached in safety.
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Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2430, 8 April 1915, Page 6
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193REAKFAST BEFORE FIGHT Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2430, 8 April 1915, Page 6
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