An officer might expect the same from his men. At Loos a Highland private carried his wounded officer out of the line, stood with him in the British front-line trench while the man clutched his ankles in his death-agony, then shook himself free, collected another bag of hand grenades, and returned, in fighting fury, to be killed in the German position.
Source:
Holmes, Richard. "Heart and Soul." Tommy: The British Soldier on the Western Front, 1914-1918. London: HarperCollins, 2004. 579. Print.
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