Map showing Frise (right) and Suzanne (left) - Eclusier is on the south bank of the Somme in the second full square
Sunday 30th January 1916: The 2nd Battalion reports that
German attacks continued yesterday south of the River Somme against the French.
Suzanne, where the Bedfords are billeted was also, once again, shelled. The
battalion sent a machine gun to fire into the German flank and help the French
defending Éclusier-Vaux on the south bank and another gun was sent to the Royal
Dragoons in the village under attack where they had gone to help our French
allies. In the evening orders came to send two platoons to dugouts in Vaux Wood
in support of the dragoons and French, the battalion receiving two platoons
from the Norfolk Regiment to replace them.
Amidst all this action the Battalion is to lose its commanding officer. Lieutenant-Colonel C C Onslow has been transferred to command the 1st Battalion and will leave today.
Source: X550/3/wd
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