Awarded the Military Medal

I got a medal for (inaudible). We were told that this trench was only short, it had to be held at all costs and there was seven of us to hold it, five on the right and two of us on the left. And I had the best machine gunner in the battalion with me and they put down a smoke screen. When they came out of this smoke screen, my buddy just cut them right down and the fellows on the right when they saw the smoke screen, they ran back and if we had fallen back we would have lost the trench.