. The story of the Munsters at Etreux, Festubert, Rue du Bois and Hulloch . heir way, to do their bit, andhad disappeared into the vast nothingnessbehind the night. Darkness fell, and great flashes lit thedark ; those pale, awful gleams of super-civilisation swept over the ghastly land. 28 STORY OF THE MUNSTERS The enemys search-lights were feeHngafter the mutilated and wounded, show-ing up the stretcher bearers and RedCross dressers, and as each slow beamswung in its deadly course, a hail oflead followed it, bearing death on itscoming. In a big yawning gap of bog anddyke and mud the Munsters
. The story of the Munsters at Etreux, Festubert, Rue du Bois and Hulloch . heir way, to do their bit, andhad disappeared into the vast nothingnessbehind the night. Darkness fell, and great flashes lit thedark ; those pale, awful gleams of super-civilisation swept over the ghastly land. 28 STORY OF THE MUNSTERS The enemys search-lights were feeHngafter the mutilated and wounded, show-ing up the stretcher bearers and RedCross dressers, and as each slow beamswung in its deadly course, a hail oflead followed it, bearing death on itscoming. In a big yawning gap of bog anddyke and mud the Munsters held on,unassisted, supports having failed. TheCompanies were lying out under fire,pinned to the ground, and with nearlyall their officers killed or wounded, theystill held on. • ••••• Major Julian Ryan, , who hadgone back to Brigade Headquarters onthe morning of the 22nd, to arrangeabout ammunition and transport, as heput it himself in a letter, sized uptrouble when the Regiment disap-peared into nothingness. It was hewho left a record of the work done. Lieutenant-Colonel G. J. Ryan, 2nd Royal Munster Fusiliers, killed near Festubert, January 23rd, 1915 Record of Service :—South African War, iSgg-igor—Employed with theMounted Infantry, advance on Kimberley, including actions at Belmont andModder River ; operations in the Transvaal from June to 29th November, 1900;operations in Cape Colony, operations in the Transvaal, 30th November, 1900,to March, 1901 ; operations in Orange River Colony, March to June, , London Gazette, loth September, 1901—Vaal, June to 29th Novem-ber, 1900; operations in Cape Colony. Queens Medal and five clasps, , 1905—Operations against the Nyam-Nyam tribes in Bafir-el-GazelProvince ; Despatches, London Gazette, i8th May, 1906. Egyptian MedalClasp. Soudan, 1906—Operations at Talodi in Southern Kordofan—Clasp toEgyptian Medal. Soudan, igo6—Operations in Blue Nile Province. PromotedTemporary
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