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Capon:
We reached the battery and lay in waist. Alan Jefferson gave us the order to attack.
He carried a little horn, blowing it as we attacked. Lt. Alan Jefferson was wounded.
I think we trod on a mme just to the riht of me; he was still blowing that horn.
I carried on shouting and firing, the only word was calling the Germans
illegitimate. The two Germans I’ll always recall coming out of a trench Red Cross
box in their hands first, and the Germans pushing each other out of that gun battery.
Pavt. Johnny Walker, Pvt. Frank Delsijnore, Sgt. Eric Bedford, Pvt. Berl Hull and myself
were at that gun
We retreated with the prisoners and came under fire from a maching gun nest to the
right of the battery. They surrended when we were attacking the battery. Lt. Col. Otway
was just outside. I remember him shouting "Get in, get in" to Lt. Dowling who was over to
my life. I think he was killed.