In registering guns you take a telephonist and linesmen with you.
Then, just as the telephonist reported "through" again the inevitable happened.
This entailed getting up early, so after an hour's rest without sleeping, I set off with my telephonist.
For the purpose of maintaining communication a French telephonist was quartered in our dug-out.
Close to the entrance a telephonist sat on the ground with an instrument beside him.
He promptly called to his telephonist to order three guns of Battery No.
"Plus 3," announced the telephonist, repeating an order from the distant Captain.
"Plus 4," sang out the telephonist, and there was a mechanical repetition of operations.
The doctor toddled off, and I got the telephonist to ring through to the colonel.
His command consisted of five riflemen, a telephonist, a linesman, and two stretcher-bearers.
