RAIDING HUN TRENCHES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXI, Issue 18, 19 August 1916, Page 2

RAIDING HUN TRENCHES.

“The latest fad of the Army is raiding parties,” wrote Rifleman D. Corkill to his parents in Stratford, , a week before he was wounded, j “These raiding parties, after elabor- j ate preparations, supported by artillery, rush a sector of the Huns front trench, wipe out all possible, and bring back anything they can lay their hands on. The Australians had one, and only had a couple of slight casualties and it was very successful. They were told to bring back four prisoners. They did so, besides machine-guns, trench mortars, and a lot of their star shells, which are at present a lot superior to ours. They all got fourteen days’ leave to the Old Dart and got a great reception at Home. When they got out of the Hun trench with their haul, one prisoner who was veiy fat la,> down and squealed like a pig, and refused to march. The “Ausies” tickled him with their bayonets, but still he wouldn’t budge. Well, delay is a matter of life and death, so one man removed the fellow’s steel helmet and gently put him to slnpe wid a gintle tap o’ the hid with his “knobkerry ’-- a sthick with a Hogwheel on the end used only on raiding parties for close quarter fighting. Tres bon for the him. . • We pro being put through a special preparation and training hard. It is very interesting and will he very useful We go out armed to the teeth, rifle loaded with fixed bayonet and electric torch affixed, six-chambered revolver, half a dozen bombs a knife, and a knobkerry. So t!iere ought to he something doing. —The writer was not far out in his concluding sentence, as it was m Hat particular raid that he "as wounded.