Tuesday 15th February 1916: It is with some relief that we have
just spoken with the adjutant of the 2nd Battalion who had been warned to
expect a full-scale German attack yesterday with poison gas to the fore. It was
with a certain wry amusement that he told us that it had been “an exceptionally
quiet day”, so quiet, in fact, that Lieutenant R B Gibson had been able to go
on leave and casualties had been nil He also said that, tense though yesterday
was an expected attack which does not materialise is infinitely preferable to
an unexpected attack which does(1).
Source: X550/3/wd
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