Special Orders to No 1 Section 13/3/18
This position will be held, and the section will remain here until relieved.
The enemy cannot be allowed to interfere with this programme.
If the section cannot remain here alive, it will remain here dead, but in any case, it will remain here.
Should any man, through shell shock or other cause, attempt to surrender, he will remain here dead.
Should all guns be blown out, the section will use Mills grenades, and other novelties.
Finally, the position, as stated, will be held.
-CAPT Frank Bethune, OC No 1 Section, 3rd Machine Gun Company, Passchendaele.
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