Beneath Hill 60 by Will Davies

Author:Will Davies [Davies, Will]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Penguin Random House Australia
Published: 2010-03-14T22:00:00+00:00

To the northwest of Armentières, past Houplines, is the small village of Touquet. This village was part of the operational area for the No. 1 and No. 2 sections of the 1st Australian Tunnelling Company, which at the time had its headquarters in Armentières. Here, just outside the German wire entanglements, about 80 metres from the Allies’ trench, was a partly damaged farmhouse, known as the Red House, from where German machine gunners and snipers were firing daily, causing Allied casualties. It was Woodward’s task to cross no-man’s-land, demolish the Red House with explosives and eliminate the German gunners. This was an especially dangerous operation, and Woodward later wrote:

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