Wednesday 20th
September 1916: From our Correspondent in
the Field
Even when
there are lulls in the fighting the everyday tasks of siege warfare, for that
is what this war seems to have become, carry on. As correspondents we have had
to become versed in looking at trench maps, an example of which is above. These
divide the countryside into a grid of ever smaller squares and show the enemy
trenches on them. Our own trenches do not tend to be shown as officers take
them into the front line in order to navigate successfully and, if the bearer
is captured the maps might reveal information the enemy does not have.
The adjutant
of the 1st Battalion tells me that today they have been in support trenches east
of the captured village of Ginchy. These positions are in the squares T14 b and
c (the small squares north-east and south-west of the number “14” on the map
above).
A working
party of sixty men under an officer has been digging assembly trenches for the
next attack. These are at the small squares immediately north-east and south-east
of “9” on the map above, north of the quarry.
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