Page 2 of letter home May 1917

• May 22, 2018 20:34:13 Thomas A. Lingner

  as soon as our guns opened on the German trenches

  we were off and when the barrage lifted we dashed

  through the German wire and into their trenches.

  My place was in the first wave as the officer follows

  in the second wave. It was a very exciting

  time but we cleared the Hun out and as the

  other waves came up we pushed on to the final

  objective in the village. Here we dug in for 

  our lives and before it was light we had got cover

  for ourselves. It was as well for we got

  shelled during the day. We expected to be 

  relieved about dawn but it was impossible and we

  had to hang on all day. We had no rations

  and had to go without food until about 4 pm.

  However we had succeeded where other troops had

  failed again and again and we were very

  pleased with ourselves. In the evening we

  were relieved by another company but only to relieve

  in our turn troops who had been holding the first

  line on the right. All Thursday night and Friday

  we held a position in another sunken road leading

  from the village. I am glad to say I came

• March 13, 2018 08:43:20 Jessica Adkins

  as soon as over guns opened on the German trenches

  we were off and when the barrage lifted we dashed

  through the German wire and into their trenches.

   was in the first wave as the officer follows

  in the second wave. It was a very exciting

  time but we cleared the Hun out and as the

  other waves came up we pushed on to the final

  objective in the village. Here we  dug  in for 

  our lives and before it was light we had got cover

  for ourselves. It was as well for we got

  shelled during the day. We expected to be 

   relieved  about dawn but it was impossible and we

  had to hang on all day. We had no water

  and had to go without food until about 4 pm.

  However we had succeeded where other troops had

  failed again and again and we were very

  pleased with ourselves. In the evening we

  were relieved by another company but only 

  in our  troops who had been holding the first

  line on the  right . All Thursday night and Friday

  we held a position in another sunken road leading

  from the village. I am glad to say I came

  
  

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