Sanctuary Wood & Hooge by Nigel Cave
Author:Nigel Cave
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Pen & Sword
Published: 2013-07-17T16:00:00+00:00
The officers of 2/DLI commissioned a painting of the action at Hooge after the war—the only action of the whole of that conflict which they chose to remember in this way. It hung in the Officers’ Mess until the battalion was disbanded in the 1950s; but a more significant annual event to ensure that Hooge remained in the battalion’s consciousness was the Hooge Day Parade, every 9th August. This was obviously no minor skirmish so far as one battalion in a regiment was concerned.
The target for 18 Brigade (four battalions in a brigade) was to the right of the crater. Because of the narrow frontage to be attacked 2/DLI was the only battalion in the Brigade in the first wave of the attack, but they had the 2/Sherwood Foresters in close support, whose task it was to secure the eastern flank of the attack.
Before the attack was launched, details of the results of patrols were made known to platoon officers. A report on S2 (map section number) was produced by Lt. G W Rogers on 3rd August: “The Wood N. of new (Sherwood) communication trench from S3 to G1 was reconnoitred and found to contain KRRC dead along the north edge. There are several minor communication trenches at X roads south of S1 leading to S1. These were explored.
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