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{{Quote|text=None go back as long as can stick out. Shells in wood and on emerging, also our front line. All not hit must push on. Must do our job. If all goes well, I stay proper place; if goes badly, I come up and see it through.<ref>Things did go badly and he did "come up and see it through" when he made his way to the British front line after seeing his men cut down by machine-gun fire. Lt-Col. Machell was true to his word and was killed upon climbing the parapet.</ref>|person=[[Percy Wilfred Machell|P.W. Machell]], [[30 June]], 1916|source=[[Record of the XIth (Service) Battalion (Lonsdale) - Appendix E]]}}
{{Quote|text=None go back as long as can stick out. Shells in wood and on emerging, also our front line. All not hit must push on. Must do our job. If all goes well, I stay proper place; if goes badly, I come up and see it through.<ref>Things did go badly and he did "come up and see it through" when he made his way to the British front line after seeing his men cut down by machine-gun fire. Lt-Col. Machell was true to his word and was killed upon climbing the parapet.</ref>|person=[[Percy Wilfred Machell|P.W. Machell]], [[30 June]], 1916|source=[[Record of the XIth (Service) Battalion (Lonsdale) - Appendix E]]}}


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