I was a murderer. [WWI]

>[Graham Seton-Hutchison](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a9/Grahamsetonsm.jpg), armed with rifle and bayonet as a company commander at High Wood on the Somme, bayoneted two Germans: ‘I was a murderer, breath coming in short gasps, teeth set, hands clenched round my rifle, nerves and sinews tense with life.’ >When the Welsh Guards attacked Ginchy on 10 September 1916 its men: >>used their bayonets to great effect. 1,656 Pte. William Williams was seen to dispose of several of the enemy, until with a furious thrust he completely transfixed a German and was unable to free his bayonet. He knocked another down with his fists, and seized yet another by the throat, when they both fell into a shell hole. More Germans rushed up, and the gallant Williams did not rise again. ________________________________ **Source:** Holmes, Richard. "Steel and Fire." *Tommy: The British Soldier on the Western Front, 1914-1918*. London: HarperCollins, 2004. 383. Print. **Original Source(s) Listed:** Seton-Hutchison *Warrior* p. 135. C. Dudley Ward *History of the Welsh Guards* (London 1920) p. 119. _________________________________ **Further Reading:** [Lieutenant-Colonel Graham Seton Hutchison](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graham_Seton_Hutchison) [Attacks on High Wood](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attacks_on_High_Wood) [Bataille de la Somme / Schlacht an der Somme (Battle of the Somme) / Somme Offensive](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_the_Somme) [Gwarchodlu Cymreig (The Welsh Guards / WG)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Welsh_Guards) [Ginchy](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ginchy)