Wednesday 6th December 1916: From our Correspondent in the Field
The 8th
Battalion adjutant spoke to me by field telephone this evening from support
trenches at a place called Pont-Fixe. They were relieved this afternoon from
the front line renches at Givenchy-lès-la-Bassée.
Just before
dawn they spotted a hostile patrol sneaking around in No Man’s Land by the
pre-dawn light. The German trenches, of course, are east of ours and in the
faint glimmer just before sunrise the enemy were silhouetted on the sky-line. A
Lewis gun ensured that they scuttled back to their own lines.
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