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We were all eager for scalps, writes one of the Royal Engineers,
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An artilleryman says a gunner in his battery was
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that he jumped up to look, and got his leg shot away. Others tell of the intense curiosity of the young soldiers to see everything that is going on, of their reckless neglect of cover, and of the difficulty of holding them back when they see a comrade fall.
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In spite of orders, some of my men actually charged a machine gun, an officer related. After the first baptism of fire any lingering fear is dispelled.
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I don't think we were ever afraid at all, says another soldier,
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Habit soon overcomes the first instinctive fear, writes a third,
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Being out there, and seeing what we see, makes us feel religious. But the majority of the men have the instinct for fighting, quickly adapt themselves to war conditions, and enter with zest into the joy of battle. These happy warriors are the men who laugh, and sing, and jest in the trenches. They take a strangely intimate pleasure in the danger around them, and when they fall they die like Mr. Julian Smith of the Intelligence Department, declaring that they
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All the wounded beg the doctors and nurses to hurry up and let them return to the front.
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I was enjoying it until I was put under, writes Lance-Corporal Leslie, R.E.
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I must get back and have another go at them,