21 in fighting near the River Scheldt.
Mrs. Nicholls, his widow, heard the news on the wireless in her Nottingham home, Nursing her baby daughter, Carol, aged eight months, she told the "News Chronicle" that "The enemy, however, succeedeti in crossing the canal on both flan! and, owing to superior enemy forces a company of Captain Ervine-Andrews' own battalion, which was Patched to protect his flanks, was unable to gain contact with him.
"There being danger of one of his platoons being driven in, he called for volunteers to fill the gap, and then, going forward, climbed on to the top of a strawroofed barn, from Which he engaged the enemy with rifle and light automatic fire, though at the time the enemy were sending mortar-bombs and armour-piercing bullets through the roof.
"Captain Ervine-Andtews personally accounted for 17 of the enemy with eight men of his company fron forward position, and. when a completely surrounded, led them back to the cover afforded by the company in the rear, swimming or wading up to the chin in water for over a mile,
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