Official map showing Hill 60
Sunday 11th April 1915: The
adjutant of the 1st Battalion, Bedfordshire Regiment tells us that the
battalion is once more in the front line, this time facing Hill 60 south-east
of Ypres, which is in enemy hands and has been since 11th November last year.
The landscape around Ypres is generally fairly
flat with a series of generally north-south ridges heading east, a bit like
waves in a gentle sea. Hill 60 stands out as being a low mound, in fact a spoil
heap, somewhat higher than the land about. It is around 750 feet long and 150
feet high and was made from earth cut to make the nearby Ypres-Comines Canal Ypres
and Zillebeke and thus of our defences. At some point it is expected that we
will make an attack to retake this hill.
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