good shooting

[mack]

two unknown ptes of the manchester regt,were sent back to the village close to their lines,it was late in the evening,and very dark,as they moved up the road,a column of french north african troops,were moving down it,ALL of a sudden,the germans began to shell the road,both men took cover in a ditch,one shell caught one of the black soldiers,on seeing this,one of the men,jumped out of the ditch and legged it,his mate shouted,get back here your gonna get killed,he shouted back,i aint bloody hangin around here,the germans have got their eye in,they.ve just hit a black fella in the dark.