: Servants of the Guns by Jeffery Jeffery E Jeffery Eardley - World War 1914-1918 Personal narratives British; World War 1914-1918 Prisoners and prisons; Great Britain. Army Artillery

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PART I

THE NEW "UBIQUE"

BEGINNING AGAIN A BATTERY IN BEING "IN THE LINE" SPIT AND POLISH A BATTLE

PART II

AND THE OLD

BILFRED "THE PROGRESS OF PICKERSDYKE" SNATTY FIVE-FOUR-EIGHT

IN ENEMY HANDS

SOME EXPERIENCES OF A PRISONER OF WAR HENRY

PART I

THE NEW "UBIQUE"

BEGINNING AGAIN

But now it is midwinter, the second winter of the war, and the French sentries no longer wave to us, for they have seen too many train-loads of English troops to be more than mildly interested. The war to which we set out so light-heartedly sixteen months ago has proved itself to be not the "greatest of games," but the greatest of all ghastly horrors threatening the final disruption of civilised humanity. More than a year has passed and the end is not in sight. But the cause is as righteous, the victory as certain now as it was then.... The methods and practice of warfare have been revolutionised. Theory after theory has been disproved by the devastating power of the high explosive and the giant gun. Horse and field batteries no longer dash into action to the music of jingling harness and thudding hoofs. They creep in by night with infinite precautions and place their guns in casemates which are often ten feet thick; they occupy the same position not for hours, but for months at a time; they fire at targets which are sometimes only fifty yards or even less in front of their own infantry, with the knowledge that the smallest error may mean death to their comrades; and the control of their shooting is no longer an affair of good eyesight and common sense, but of science, complicated instruments, and a multiplicity of telephones.

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