Captain Pearse
Sunday 29th October 1916 From our Correspondent in the Field
Today we hear
from the 2nd Bedfords that they have marched to billets in Pommier, where
Captain L F Beal is Town Major. Lieutenant N V Dabell has left the battalion
temporarily, as he is going to replace Captain H A W Pearse as adjutant of 30th
Divisional School.
33rd Division
have again attacked the enemy east of Lesboeufs in heavy rain today. Even
heavier enemy fire prevented any advance.
39th Division took some ground at a point known as the Pope’s Nose on the slope from the River Ancre up to Thiepval, where Mill Lane branches off from Thiepval Road. We have had rain since 25th of this month and the going, bad before, is now worse. The devastation of millions of shells have destroyed all natural drainage and so the ground, in many areas, is effectively waterlogged.
39th Division took some ground at a point known as the Pope’s Nose on the slope from the River Ancre up to Thiepval, where Mill Lane branches off from Thiepval Road. We have had rain since 25th of this month and the going, bad before, is now worse. The devastation of millions of shells have destroyed all natural drainage and so the ground, in many areas, is effectively waterlogged.
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