Captain Cavan and Second Lieutenants Lovely and Gudgeon
Saturday 9th
October 1915: We hear that the Germans have launched an attack at Loos, hoping
to regain territory lost since 25th September. The 2nd Battalion, Bedfordshire
Regiment are in front line trenches at Cuinchy, a few miles to the north. The
adjutant reports that their own trenches were shelled fairly heavily all day.
Last evening about 6 o’clock they were alerted that they may be moved to the
area of the German attack if it develops. What a nice surprise for Captain P C
Cavan and Second Lieutenants Lovely and Gudgeon who joined the Battalion as the
alert was given.
The adjutant
of the 7th Battalion, still in the front line near Fricourt on the Somme
reports that last evening a German working party was reported and both shrapnel
and high explosive from British artillery opened fire and the noise of tools
being hastily dropped was then heard!
A German
sniper was shot yesterday evening while endeavouring to signal the direction of
the Battalion’s snipers’ shots. This shows what a cat-and –mouse game hunting
with telescopic sights in the trenches is.
Source: X550/3/wd; X550/8/1
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