I know what I would have done. [WWI]

>British machine-gunners in another post were luckier. “I thought we had stopped them,” remembered Private J. Parkinson, >>when I felt a bump in the back. I turned round and there was a German officer with a revolver in my back. “Come along, Tommy. You’ve done enough.” >>I turned round and said “Thank you very much, Sir.” >>I know what I would have done if I had been held up by a machine gunner and had that revolver in my hand, I’d have finished him off. He must have been a real gentleman. It was twenty past ten. I know to the minute because I looked at my watch. _________________________ **Source:** Keegan, John. "America and Armageddon." *The First World War*. New York: A. Knopf :, 1999. 399. Print. **Original Source Listed:** Middlebrook, *Kaiser*, p. 192.