"UP, YE DEAD MEN!"
OFFICIAL KEPOKT OF SERGEAX"! PEIUCARDS BATTLE CRY. The "Bulletin ties Armoes" of February L 6, contains the official ret old oi the episode which occurred in April last at theßois Brule, where Sergeant Pencard, an editor of the Agence Havas, distinguished himself. ■'On Apr.l K l'-'lo, a trench captured on th" day before by Ist and 3rd battalions had ju.st been the object of violent . aunter-attacks. The occupants were falling hack, and a communication trench was going to be invaded by the "liemy.
"Sergeant Poricard, who had taken part in the glorious action of the day before, and was in reserve, gathered together some volunteers of his company and advanced against the enemy. The communication trench was retaken after a prolonged and terrible fight, in the course of which Poricard. feeling his men weakening, and seeing only dead and wounded around him, shouted, 'Ye dead men, stand up.'
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Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 5, Issue 173, 12 May 1916, Page 3 (Supplement)
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152"UP, YE DEAD MEN!" Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 5, Issue 173, 12 May 1916, Page 3 (Supplement)
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