Thursday 17th August 1916
From our Correspondent in the Field
We understand
that the attacks carried out in the vicinity of Guillemont yesterday, by our 3rd
Division and the French 153rd Division have unraveled overnight. The French
were forced to give way by strong German counter-attacks and 3rd Division did
not manage to hold the road from Guillemont to Hardecourt due to failures of
attacks by other units of the same division on its flanks. The one bright spot
is that a particularly troublesome enemy trench called Cochrane Alley, near
Maltz Horn Farm, was taken yesterday
and has been held.
Early this
morning 1st Division was attacked by the enemy in a trench which it had secured
to the west of High Wood. The enemy used flame-throwers, ghastly weapons men of
the 1st Bedfords will remember from attacks they faced near Ypres in July last
year. Unfortunately some of the trench was lost to the enemy.
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