Landrecies to Cambrai: Case Studies of German Offensive and Defensive Operations on the Western Front 1914-17 by Captain G. C. Wynne & Duncan Rogers

Author:Captain G. C. Wynne & Duncan Rogers [Wynne, Captain G. C. & Rogers, Duncan]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781906033767
Amazon: 1909384038
Publisher: Helion and Company
Published: 2012-05-27T21:00:00+00:00

“After some twenty minutes,” he writes, “the guides returned saying the trench was straight ahead with the 10th, 11th and 12th Companies, and that reinforcements were badly needed there. The company therefore moved on at once, but after a few yards a machine gun suddenly opened fire close by from the rising ground on the right. Fortunately it was not yet light enough for the gun to take accurate aim and the bullets passed over our heads. For a moment, however, there was a great confusion, some lay down, some ran back and some forward. I shouted ‘Double march, into the trench in front,’ and hurried on, believing the company to be with me. But the trench was further than I thought, some 300 yards, and on reaching it I found that only thirty had arrived out of the whole company.”

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