Denaby Buglers Contempt for the Germans – Beaten to the World

June 1915

Mexborough and Swinton Times June 19, 1915

Denaby Buglers Contempt for the Germans
Beaten to the World

Bugler R. Hallsall (1/5th South Lancs) of Denaby Main is in hospital at Yarmouth with shrapnel wounds in the arm.

Writing to a friend, Mr R Clayton of four Hamden Road Mexborough, he says:

“I am very lucky to keep my arm, for the metal was poisonous, and it only just missed the artery. I have seen some terrible sights during my six months at the front, and I have been through some of the hardest fighting there has been. I have seen some of my best pals killed.

The dear fellows fought bravely to the last for their King and country. The best thing to settle the Germans with is the bayonet. They scream like children when we get near with it. The cowards used to shout “mercy, beauty,” and cry like children, but it didn’t affect us. No doubt we suffer sometimes in their machine-gun fire, but we have the gaps filled up with reinforcements, and we give it them again red-hot.

The only fighters in the German army are the Prussian guards. They will put up a fight and it is hand-to-hand with them. Even if they don’t last long, the Germans are beaten to the world, and it is only the fact that they have a tremendous army that has enabled them to hold out for so long. They must have had millions of men to start with.”