LIEUT. SEDDON'S ADVENTURE

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 40, 10 November 1917, Page 8

LIEUT. SEDDON'S ADVENTURE

"I had a (treat adventure the other day." says Lieutenant T. E. Y. Seddon, M.P., in a letter from "somewhere in Flanders." "I think I once told you how in Armontierios I went up a chimney stacK to ol>serve with our artillery officer the effect of our artillery fire. Our artillery liaison officer promised me a treat here, and wo hied us off to an O.P. (observation post), and there awaited the arrival of the telephonist. Ho was to transmit tho messages to the battery. Well, the O.P. vns a walnut tree, and according to the old adage About a dofr, a woman, and a walnut tree, it must have been thoroughly well beaten, for it was very big and lofly. Everything was in order, and the day a Rood one for ns, for there was a haze over Fritz's line which would prevant him from easily picking upon_ flashes; find so tho morning's snort promised fair. "Fritz nnifit have 'felt' us there.- for we had not oegun operations when explosive shrapnel, burst aT>on.t a hundred yiinls Tiehind us. Mot wishing to lw shot like sparrows on a tree, we made for a dug-out, and we were just going down Hip steps when crash came another shell just overhead. The artillery officer was yoing down the steps, the telephonist ahead and touching me. and T followed un. A hit of shrapnel gol: the telenhonist. while just at the back of me (v blanket hnnir on fnme wire received four nerforations. The wound the telephonist got was a fiefh one. and after dressing it.' he went oft smiling and smoking and chatting fo f he stretcherbwirprs. Blighty staring him in tho face!"