Saturday 15th
September 1917
Today there
have been, again, a few isolated attacks. 47th (1st/2nd London) Division used
7th Battalion, London Regiment, to launch an attack on a strong-point near
Inverness Copse. Meanwhile 1st/4th East Lancashires of 42nd Division took a
point called Sans Souci. Perhaps the most interesting “attack” was a Chinese
attack undertaken by 51st (Highland) Division. A Chinese attack uses dummy
figures to draw enemy fire either to pin the enemy in place for a bombardment
or to deceive him into thinking an attack is coming from that direction when,
in fact, it is coming from another.
