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greaves
1. bounced harmlessly off their iron greaves below
2. Bert Frank and I along with Captain Thornley and RSM Greaves had stayed behind and were due to go with the second lot
3. Captain Thornley came over with RSM Greaves and S/Sgt Cocker saluted and made his report saying
4. RSM Greaves stayed a moment more so he could say to us
5. ” We turned and saw RSM Greaves who was listening to what was happening and had answered Bert’s question he stood there for quite a while as all the old regulars did like a statue and then he walked on down the trench without another word
6. “What the hell are you lot doing maybe you think you’re on holiday or something?” We looked up to see RSM Greaves bearing down on us with the newly promoted Sgt Kenny beside him the RSM turned to him saying
7. Inside there was already the Colonel Captain Melstone along with Major Danby and Captain Thornley then you had Lt Pearson CSM Domby and RSM Greaves
8. A short time later however RSM Greaves came round and told us it was true it seemed that Kitchener had been travelling to somewhere on the naval ship H
9. RSM Greaves was going round so I asked him
10. I peeked over the lip of the hole again and to my surprise I saw Colonel Terry, Major Melstone and RSM Greaves in a shell hole close to ours with a few more of the lads with them
11. Then RSM Greaves asked
12. Major Melstone and RSM Greaves came over to us and the RSM said, Right young Lamb you are now a Lance Corporal the Colonel has made you up in the field now hold out your arm
13. “That would have been Colonel Terry S/Sgt and I don’t think he would like being called a lunatic”, stood there was RSM Greaves
14. RSM Greaves said to me
15. “Did you see Colonel Terry or RSM Greaves killed?” I told him
16. “I’m surprised Sir all you have to do is ask Colonel Terry or RSM Greaves and I’m sure that they will confirm everything that I have told you
17. ” I thought to myself bloody hell if soldiers as good as Colonel Terry and RSM Greaves had been killed then the Battalion must have ceased to exist to all intents and purposes
18. 6 And he had greaves of brass on his legs, and a target of brass between his shoulders
19. Fortunately her leather greaves absorbed most of the blow, but the cut to her arm was still deep enough to make her drop her blade in shock
20. Here stood a guardsman in crested gilt helmet, silvered cuirass and gold-chased greaves, with a long-shafted battle-ax in his hands
21. The torchlight glinted dully on the polished blue steel of his greaves and basinet
22. His horned helmet was such as was worn by the golden-haired Æsir of Nordheim; his hauberk and greaves were of the finest workmanship of Koth; the fine ring-mail which sheathed his arms and legs was of Nemedia; the blade at his girdle was a great Aquilonian broadsword; and his gorgeous scarlet cloak could have been spun nowhere but in Ophir
23. He is dressed in full armor (bronze breastplate over a short, red tunic, and bronze greaves), and wears a helmet with a tall, horse-hair crest
24. Greaves: A section of defensive armor for the legs
25. They then stripped him of a jacket that he wore over his armour, and they would have stripped off his stockings if his greaves had not prevented them
26. His breastplate was enameled blue as well, as were his poleyns, couter, greaves, and gorget
27. Down through the greaves of his cheeks, the lines about his mouth, and off his lips, like a storm on a gargoyle's flint, the weather ran
