Trench Mortar at the Imperial War Museum
Wednesday 10th
January 1917
A
conversation with the adjutant of the 8th Battalion on the telephone today
reminded me that, even though both armies are, unofficially in “winter
quarters”, the firing goes on. Winter Quarters used to mean a suspension of
hostilities for the winter whilst both armies built up their strength and
planned and trained fro the year to some. Of course, that still happens, but in
this modern, industrial war of constant siege the front lines are still manned
and so fire is exchanged on a regular basis. Today the battalion gave thirty of
its men to the Royal Engineers to make new dugouts in the support line. Seeing
this activity the Germans fired about two hundred light trench mortars over the
front line. Fortunately no casualties accrued to the Bedfords. The adjutant
remarked that the enemy: “Received good retaliation from our artillery”.
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