Under the Leaning Virgin - Death Visits Albert Billets, by Guy Chapman | 9-20 July 1916 | Episode 131
Published on 9 July 1916
Guy Chapman continues his narrative of life in the 13th Royal Fusiliers during the Battle of the Somme. This episode contains a most vivid description of the shelling of Albert and an account of that desperate expedient sometimes resorted to by men driven mad by war's horrors, the self-inflicted wound.