. The story of the Munsters at Etreux, Festubert, Rue du Bois and Hulloch . ght. The bright smoke of firesover the land behind the parapets of theGerman trenches made will-o-the-wispcolumns of misty light ; sometimes a 24 STORY OF THE MUNSTERS star shell shot up, lighting the placelike day, and sometimes the crack of arifle tore the dark and spattered in themud of the trench. Life and deathcome much closer in the night thanthey do in the day time, and the wholealmost intolerable mystery of war isintensified a thousandfold. Very slowlythe sullen dawn broke, as if unwillingto reveal the sights t
. The story of the Munsters at Etreux, Festubert, Rue du Bois and Hulloch . ght. The bright smoke of firesover the land behind the parapets of theGerman trenches made will-o-the-wispcolumns of misty light ; sometimes a 24 STORY OF THE MUNSTERS star shell shot up, lighting the placelike day, and sometimes the crack of arifle tore the dark and spattered in themud of the trench. Life and deathcome much closer in the night thanthey do in the day time, and the wholealmost intolerable mystery of war isintensified a thousandfold. Very slowlythe sullen dawn broke, as if unwillingto reveal the sights that night clothedover, and the sodden fields and the barnsand farmsteads stood out blackly againstthe grey. The green and yellowishwater lying over the flats was frozen,and the dead were very visible, lyingin pathetic heaps amid the refuse of athousand unexpected things. The wearydesolation of dawn over French Flanderspasses all description. The noise grew with the morninglight, and the boom and bang ofheavy crashes grew fiercer, until thehour arrived when the Battalion,. Lteutenant-Colonel a. M. Bent, 2nd Royal Munster Fusiliers, dangerously wounded at Festubert,22nd December, 1914 Record of Service :—South African War, 1902—Operations in the Trans-vaal, January to April, 1902. Queens Medal, with three clasps. North-WestFrontier of India, igoS—Operations in Mohmand Country. Medal with clasp. [To face p. 24. STORY OF THE MUNSTERS 25 led by Colonel Bent, started to theattack. The men swarmed over the parapetsand raced across the fields, carrying theirheavy equipment and following theirofficers over the shell-scarred, churncd-up earth. Strands of barbed wire besettheir way, and the ground was brokenby great shell-holes. Before them, fromthe German trenches, the machine gunshammered out their deadly message ofwelcome ; and the men went gamelyon, most splendidly led by their officers. Major Thomson,Second in Command,fell across the first German trench, butwould not per
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