Diary of Pvt. Albert Young (cont’d…)
I got a bullet in the leg and my hand was torn with shrapnel, but that is only a small matter. The retreating Germans had flung out a rear guard in order to enable their main body to get away, and it was our duty to harry this rear guard as much as possible, and we did it, too. Then we were given the order to advance, and when we got to within about fifty feet of their lines we had to charge them with the bayonet. I gout four Germans with cold steel before I stopped a bullet. I got one German stuck on my bayonet, and could not get him off. Then I was shot. This was on Monday night and I lay all that night in the wood before I was found.
— Pvt. Albert Young
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