Saturday 11th November 1916 From our Correspondent in the Field
After two
inspections in two days the 4th Battalion, Bedfordshire Regiment, have today
left Puchevillers for Varennes, much closer to the front line. They seem to be heading towards Beaumont-Hamel. This village lies at the meeting place of two
interlocking spurs of land close to the west bank of the River Ancre. High
Command had planned to capture it on 1st July but the casualties here were so
terrible and the failure so complete nothing further has been tried against it
since.
Trench Mortar at the Imperial War Museum
Today Stokes mortars fired lachrymatory shells, or tear gas, on it five o’clock this morning. At three this afternoon nearly fifty drums of poisoned gas were fired into the village, with nearly forty fired at a feature called Y-Ravine which lies just south of the village.
Last night
the Canadians seized the parts of Regina Trench east of the road from
Courcelette to Pys by a midnight attack. Appropriately one of the attacking
battalions was the 46th (South Saskatchewan), the province of which Regina is
the capital. Nearly one hundred prisoners were taken and counter-attacks during
today have been beaten off. First class work by the Canucks.
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