SEVEN WEEKS IN A SHELL HOLE
Ono of the most remarkable- experience# of the war was that of Private J. Taylor, of the London Kegiment, whose home is nt Holloway, and who received tho Distinguished Conduct lledal for "extraordinal')' pluck and endurance in liis determination not to fall into the enemy's hands." 1 /He was cut off from his company and received a bullet in the thigh, causing a compound fracture. To avoid capture ho crawled into a , shell-hole, where he remained for over seven weeks, during tho whole of which time tho surrounding district was subjected to a severe bombardment by our artillery. Ho lived on tins of bully beef collected _ at night from dead bodies, and water which he obtained in a waterproof cape.' After some weeks three of tho enemy visited his shell-hole, but by feigning death ho avoided capture and eventually succeeded in crawling back to our lines—a distunco of some 800 yards.
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Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 183, 23 April 1918, Page 6
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157SEVEN WEEKS IN A SHELL HOLE Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 183, 23 April 1918, Page 6
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