This
is in marked contradistinction to the untold and unspeakable brutality
exercised upon our wounded prisoners in the German lines.
In due time they were carried to the rear by German prisoners, and then
to England through the medium of the base hospitals and casualty
clearing stations.
It is with pardonable pride I can say that they were not long in the
hospital before they got word they were to receive a medal for their
magnificent work.
Billy's splendid physical condition rapidly brought him through,
although it was five months before he was really himself again, and he
has since then gone back to the lines, where he was again wounded and in
the hospital, and has again gone back and is still doing his bit.
On the following morning, I returned to the battery.
CHAPTER XIV
THE DEAD SHELL[1]
A late September mist, more hazy than foggy in its character, enveloped
the line following a heavy deluge of nearly two days that had poured
almost a foot of water in our trenches, and in some spots where holes
had formed in the trench-bed the water came gurgling over the knee.
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