"He would often go into no-man's-land. It was a nerve-wracking experience to go with him. He would call out in his loud, gruff voice—far too loud it seemed to us—"You go that way, I will go this... Come here, I have found a gap in the German wire. Come over here at once!" He was like a baby elephant out in no-man's-land at night. He never fell when a shell went off; he never ducked when a bullet went past with its loud crack. He used to say, after watching me duck: "It's no damn use ducking; the bullet has gone a long way past you by now.""
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Edmund Hakewill-Smith, quoted in Martin Gilbert, Winston S. Churchill: The Challenge of War, 1914–1916 (Volume III) (1971), p. 658
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1874 – 1965
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