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Description
Mr. Morrison describes the difficulty of digging trenches in chalky ground, and one man's attempt at relieving a stressful situation. A sniper shoots the man through both cheeks without him losing a tooth.
Transcription
One night five of us were ordered to take an outpost at No Man’s Land and it was half chalk in that part of France. To take a shovel full and throw it, it would stick on the shovel. You had to use your heel to get it off and by morning we were only down about 2 1/2 feet. It started to rain and you had to keep your head down. So a fellow by the name of Guy said, “You know it wouldn’t be so bad here if you’d use your imagination. Imagine we’re at the Savile Hotel in London,” he said, “before a big great fire smoking expensive cigars. Let’s see now what we had for dinner, a tender roast beef and Yorkshire pudding, a whole lot of vegetables and after dessert...” Somebody said, “Oh shut up!” And he raised his head and a bullet went right through both cheeks. “He missed my teeth!” he said, “I'm going to make a run for it!” “You’ll never make it!” “I’m not going to sit in this puddle all day!” And away he goes. One of us had a periscope, he was zig zagging, it would take a few seconds to get a bead on him and by that time he was zagging and about 20 seconds he made it, he was waving his shovel.