Sergeant Michael Cassidy, R.E.

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Sapper. Sergeant Michael Cassidy, R.E.

Sergeant Michael Cassidy, R.E

Table of Contents

I. — THREE TO ONE. An Incident in the Advance from Paris

Published as "The Guards" in Michael Cassidy, Sergeant

II. — A FIRE IN BILLETS. A Farm near Bailleul, December 1914

III. — MEDICAL INSPECTION. Cleanliness is Next to..

IV. — THE GUARDS

V. — A SUBALTERN OF THE GUARDS

VI. — A WORD TO THE SHIRKERS. And — which is more — you'll be a man, my son. Kipling

VII. — THE BRIDGE. An Incident During the Retreat

VIII. — THE CHARGE OF THE COOKS. Zillebeeke, November 1914

IX. — THE SPY. November 1914, near Messines

X. — MUD AND NOISE. Any Old Place — the Trenches, Winter, 1914

XI. — THE CHRISTMAS TRUCE

XII. — SAPPING AND MINING

XIII. — THE HEAVY LIEUTENANT'S PRISONER

XIV. — HOW TO BE HAPPY THOUGH WOUNDED

XV. — THE TERRIBLE DANGER OF "FUNK"

XVI. — GOOD-BYE AND GOOD LUCK

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Sapper

Published by Good Press, 2021

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"'It felt good, sir,' says I. ''Tis a blow we use at Ballygoyle with empty bottles on race days.'

"While we'd been speaking we'd untied the old man and the old lady, but the poor girl she just lay there dazed and sick. 'Twas awful, the room. You've never seen such a shambles in your life, sir — oh! 'twas fearful. We pulled out the dead Germans, and threw them into the wood, and then we cleared up the mess as best we could. We left them there, the three of them, the poor old man trying to comfort his old wife, and the pair of them weeping by the daughter. Ah! the devils, the swine: to think of it. It might have been one's own girl, sir; and the look in her eyes — I'll never forget it."

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