Sunday 15th October 1916 From our Correspondent in the Field
The attacks
made by 4th Division last night, we have been told this morning, were
unsuccessful. Before dawn this morning 6th Division occupied gun pits in front
of Cloudy Trench east of Gueudecourt.
The 8th
Battalion adjutant tells me that they are still in front line trenches east of
Gueudecourt. There has been intermittent shelling all day, very intense for
about half an hour at midnight last night. Three enemy snipers have been shot
down. Casualties Second Lieutenant John Seear Gibson has died of wounds
inflicted by the shelling and two other ranks have been killed, with eight
wounded.
At the
Schwaben Redoubt today the Germans launched desperate counter-attacks with
their favoured flame-throwers. All of these, I am glad to report, have been
defeated.
Source: X550/9/1
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