Monday 9th October 1916 From our Correspondent in the Field
Whist it was
still dark this morning 39th Division tred a surprise attack on the northern
face of the Schwaben Redoubt but they were repulsed. This pestilential defence work has been a squabbling point since 28th September and each day has seen some activity there, great or slight. Just after noon 10th
Battalion, Cheshire Regiment of 25th Division attacked Stuff Redoubt due east
of the Schwaben Redoubt and captured it, supported by a very effective barrage.
So, only one of the three Thiepval redoubts remains partially in enemy hands.
Today the
Bedfordshire Yeomanry marched from Forest-l’Abbaye to Douriez. This would not
be remarkable in itself, except they went via Crécy-en-Ponthieu, site of the
grerat victory of Edward III and his son the Black Prince over the French in
1346. The padre, Rev H G Gibbons, told me he was planning a lecture on the
battle for some rest period in the future(1)
Source: WW1/WD2
(1) It was
given on 2nd December 1916 at Desvres
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