When forming one of a storming party which advanced against an enemy’s barricade, O’Leary rushed to the front and himself killed five Germans who were holding the first barricade, after which he attacked the second barricade, about sixty yards further on, which he captured after killing three of the enemy and making prisoners of two more.
You may talk of the Rebels of Ulster
And the shindy we had to chuck;
But we don’t give a rap for a family scrap
Whin the Prooshuns is running amuck.
Did you hear how Lance Corporal O’Leary,
Mike O’Leary of the Guards,
Wid his own two mits, tore a forthress to bits
Like a blissed conthraption of cards.
He’d a shmile, had Mike, that ’ud span a dyke,