Zweibund — the Dual Alliance — Germany and Austria-Hungary united, were the core of the Central Powers, and here join hands. The bars of Germany's flag border the top left, and those of the Habsburg Austrian Empire and ruling house the bottom right.
Schulter an SchulterUntrennbar vereintin Freud und in Leid!'Shoulder to shoulderInseparably united in joy and in sorrow!
"I fall to the ground on one knee. A sudden jolt goes through my left arm. It's [forced] behind me, bleeding copiously. I want to get up but I can't . . . [Now] my arm shudders with the shock of a second bullet and blood starts to flow from another wound. My knee presses into the ground as if my body is made of lead. My head droops; then then the dull thud of a third bullet rips off another shred of cloth right before my eyes. Unwisely, I look down at my chest and see a deep furrow of red flesh by my left armpit."
Account of his wounding by three bullets on February 25, 1915 by Lieutenant Maurice Genevoix of the 106th Infantry in an assault on the ridge of Les Eparges.
They Shall Not Pass: The French Army on the Western Front 1914-1918 by Ian Sumner, page 48, copyright © Ian Sumner 2012, publisher: Pen and Sword, publication date: 2012
1915-02-25, 1915, February, Les Eparges, wounded
