1st Bedfords near Festubert
Wednesday 8th November 1916 From our Correspondent in the Field
In recent
reports I have had occasion to comment on the waterlogged battlefield here on
the Somme, treacherous with cloying mud and trenches on occasion thigh-high in
water. It seems the same conditions are trying the patience of the 1st
Battalion, Bedfordshire Regiment, well north of here near Festubert. In a
conversation this morning the adjutant told me that they, too, have had rain every
day. Communication and cover trenches have became flooded and much work has
been required by the Divisional Pioneer Battalion – 1st/6th Battalion, Argyll
and Sutherland Highlanders, to compete with the water.
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