1st Battalion in For a Hot Time?

Saturday 6th May 1916: The adjutant of the 1st Battalion tells us that they have just gone back into the trenches, near the city of Arras. Rather laconically he tells us that B Company is in trenches “nearly all said to be dangerous from mines”, the trenches occupied by D Company are “nearly as bad” and those of A Company “about the same”. C Company is in reserve at a spot dubbed “Britannia Iron Works”, though he did not say if this was named in honour of the iron works of the same name in Bedford.

Source: X550/2/5