The telegram was never confirmed, and I was accused of having made it up myself.

It certainly had a wholesome effect upon our men at a critical and anxious moment.
We had a hard time in retaking the lost ground.

Gallant were the charges which were made in broad daylight in the face of heavy machine-gun fire.

In preparation for the attack, our men had to lie under the cover of broken hedges for twenty-four hours, living only on the iron rations which they carried with them.

I went up one morning when one of our battalions had just come out after a hard fight.