Field Ambulance Sketches

Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with legibility. Our way lay up the Shinfield Road; and at first we kept to the road, scorning the communication trench, Shinfield Street, which ran along the left-hand side. But soon after we had surmounted the slight hill beyond Pepper Lane a distant tut-tut-tut warned us that Artful Otto was at work, and we dropped into the dark trench.<br><br>Artful Otto was a German machine-gunner somewhere on the left who had discovered that if he fired on to the wall of the Merry Maidens public house, the ricochets would go spinning straight down Shinfield Road, and might even enfilade the communication trench itself.