Friday, 11 March 2016

Settling In Eventful


Saturday 11th March 1916: The 1st Battalion’s first few days in their new home near Arras have been eventful. The night before last Second Lieutenant Beale and one of his men were wounded when out on patrol in no man’s land when a German patrol threw a bomb at them. Then yesterday Second Lieutenant Cook was shot through the head by a sniper and killed instantly.

Source: X550/2/5

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