THE HUMEROUS HERO.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 1624, 14 October 1916, Page 4

THE HUMEROUS HERO.

CHEERFUL IN AN INFERNO. A TYPICAL “TOMMY.” ll is impossible for me to begin to do justice to Private on paper, writes an Australian correspondent. I wish he could meet some of our literary masters of Cockney humour, for, though what I am able to quote may hut faintly indicate it, men like this are perfectly wonderful in their altitude towards the great things they have seen and done. This man —he is on|v one among thousands has moved and lived and had his hourly being night and day tor a mouth past in a nearer approach to Bicoid writers’ dreams of hell than anything ever previously seen on earth. Not for an hour in all that time has he been out of reach ol gunfire- or away from the maniacal din, tin- murderous fury of it all. He is now prelty badly cnl about, and has lost a lot of blood. But he hardly ever opens Ills mouth without emitting a jesi of somekind; he talks cheerily of getting hack into inferno, and very probably will he hack there before very many weeks have passed. As for Delville, which several officers have fold me was (he most awful ami bloody shambles of the whole terrific month, he says that, bar its untidiness, so to say, you couldn't ’live asked for a nicer plice- for a scrap!” if the Kaiser could produce many such soldiers as this onewell, the war would last a very long lime. Myself, 1 greatly doubt if The Ail Highest could produce one such among all his legions. And 1 have talked with many scores of just this type, and hundreds of other typos as line- in their different ways, during the- past few weeks alone.