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Wednesday , dead beat , they fought again -- and against ever fresh masses of men , remember . Wednesday night one corps came to Landrecies . At half-past nine they were all asleep in billets . At ten o'clock a perfectly fresh army of the enemy , field guns backing them up behind , machine guns in front , bore down the streets into the village . But those wonderful Coldstreams and Grenadiers and Highlanders just filled the streets and every man for himself poured in rifle fire , and every machine gun fired into the enemy masses , smashed the attack and then they went at them with the bayonet and flung them back . Again and again throughout the night this thing was repeated until the Germans drew off , leaving five hundred dead before the village and in its streets . It was in the last bayonet charge , when leading his men , that Jack was killed . ''