For instance, a witness says:
"About Sept. 20 our regiment took part in an engagement with
the Germans. After we had retired into our trenches, a few
minutes after we got back into them, the Germans retired into
their trenches. The distance between the trenches of the
opposing forces was about 400 yards. I should say about fifty
or sixty of our men had been left lying on the field from our
trenches. After we got back to them I distinctly saw German
soldiers come out of their trenches, go over the spots where
our men were lying, and bayonet them. Some of our men were
lying nearly half way between the trenches."
Another says:
"The Germans advanced over the trenches of the headquarters
trench, where I had been on guard for three days. When the
Germans reached our wounded I saw their officer using his
sword to cut them down."
Another witness says:
"Outside Ypres we were in trenches and were attacked, and had
to retire until reinforced by other companies of the Royal
Fusiliers. Then we took the trenches and found the wounded,
between twenty and thirty, lying in the trenches with bayonet
wounds, and some shot.
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