The sight so amazed the Germans that they actually stopped fighting and waited for him.

Perhaps it was the Red Cross on the doctor's arm that influenced them, but imagine a body of soldiers in the heat of a charge suddenly stopping because of one man!" "Well, what happened ?" asked Mr.Merrick.
"I couldn't see very well, for a battery that supported the charge was shelling the retreating Allies and just then our ambulance was hit.

But Maurie says he watched the scene and that when Gys attempted to lift the wounded man up he suddenly turned weak as water.

The Germans had captured the gun, by this time, and their officer himself hoisted the injured man upon the doctor's shoulders and attended him to our ambulance.

When I saw the fight was over I hastened to help Gys, who staggered so weakly that he would have dropped his man a dozen times on the way had not the Germans held him up.