Excerpt from A Gloucestershire Lad at Home and Abroad F. W. Harvey. For conspicuous gallantry on the night of the grd - 4th August, 1915, near Hebuterne, when, with a patrol, he and another non-commissioned Officer went out to reconnoitre in the direction of a suspected listening post. In advancing they encountered the hostile post evidently covering a working party in the rear. Corporal Knight at once shot one of the enemy, and, with lance-corporal Harvey, rushed the post, shooting two others, and assistance arriv ing the enemy fled. Lance-corporal Harvey pursued, felling one of the retreating Germans with a bludgeon. He seized him, but finding his revolver empty and the enemy having opened fire, he was called back by Corporal Knight, and the prisoner escaped. Three Ger mans were killed and their rifles and a Mauser pistol were brought in. The patrol had no loss. The poems are written by a soldier and reflect a soldier's outlook. Mud, blood and khaki are rather conspicuously absent. They are, in fact, the last things a soldier wishes to think or talk about. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.