Ten Years Ago Today, item 16

• December 15, 2016 14:19:54 Jake Warren

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  by means of a signalling camp. So I set off

  with one signaller and a daylight lamp (a

  special device by means of which we were able to

  flash messages in Morse code in the daylight).

                  After many windings we at last found

  ourselves in the old German front line trench but

  much too far to the night to be able to see what we

  desired, that is the ground over which our troops were

  still advancing. This may sound absurd to you

  but the battle front never consisted of flat

  country. The contours of the ground often

  prevented a view from a certain spot, whilst

  a hundred yards to left or right would give the

  desired result. Now while we had been wandering

  around looking for the spot marked on the

  map from which I knew I could observe,

  we had heard a good deal of rifle shooting and

  machine gun work. This apparently came from

  the trench in which I was and further to my

  left, that is somewhere about where I wanted to

  get. We discovered after a time that it was not

  British firing. Our infantry had gone far beyond

  this spot. so it must of course be

  German. this proved to be the case. Evidently in

  advancing the infantry had not cleared up all

  the Huns, and there were left a few able bodied

  very active gentlemen who were concentrating their

  machine gun and rifle fire on to the old British

  trench, no man’s land that was, and the ground

  beyond. Consequently anyone showing up in the open

• December 10, 2016 01:06:27 Sue Bryant

  9

  by means of a signalling camp. So I set off

  with one signaller and a daylight lamp (a

  special device by means of which we were able to

  flash messages in Morse code in the daylight).

                  After many windings we at last found

  ourselves in the old German front line trench but

  much too far to the night to be able to see what we

  desired, that is the ground over which our troops were

  still advancing. This may sound absurd to you

  but the battle front never consisted of flat

  country. The contours of the ground often

  prevented a view from a certain spot, whilst

  a hundred yards to left or right would give the

  desired result. Now while we had been wandering

  around looking for the spot marked on the

  map from which I knew I could observe,

  we had heard a good deal of rifle shooting and

  machine gun work. This apparently came from

  the trench in which I was and further to my

  left, that is somewhere about where I wanted to

  get. We discovered after a time that it was not

  British firing. Our infantry had gone far beyond

  this spot. so it must of course be

  German. this proved to be the case. Evidently in

  advancing the infantry had not cleared up all

  the Huns, and there were left a few able bodied

  very active gentlemen who were concentrating their

  machine gun and rifle fire on to the old British

  trench, no man’s land that was, and the ground

  beyond. Consequently anyone showing up in the open

  
  

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