Second Lieutenant Page [X550/1/81]
Thursday 10th May 1917
There has
been no fighting around Bullecourt today, nor over the rest of the Arras
battlefield. Yesterday night the 1st Battalion, Bedfordshire Regiment moved
forward to occupy a line east of Willerval and Farbus Station to prevent any
further advances by the enemy. The Battalion has only four hundred men (about
forty per-cent strength). Overnight they were heavily shelled with gas and tear
shells, a few men suffering minor discomfort.
Meanwhile 2nd
Battalion, thirty miles west of Arras at Buire-au-Bois have had some reinforcements.
9357 Sergeant P A Page has been promoted from the ranks, as has been common
with the battalion this year, and Second Lieutenant A D Greenwood and Second
Lieutenant A D Barnetson have joined from England(1). C Company played D
Squadron of the Bedfordshire Yeomanry at football and won by three goals to
one.
Sources: X550/2/5; X550/3WD
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