Friday 23rd
February 1917 from our correspondent in
the field
The adjutant
of the 1st Field Company East Anglian Royal Engineers reports that they have
taken over “intermediate work”. It turns out that this means the installation
of a water supply system from a well in an old sugar beet factory of which
there are a number on the Somme. They are also building of several messes on dug-outs
south of Miraumont for the use of 2nd Divisional Headquarters.
They are also
making a dug-out for the Royal Field Artillery Brigade Headquarters, fitting gas
canisters in dugouts at Courcellette, erecting camouflage screens, constructing
an office at Centre Way Dump, maintaining and repairing a duck board track to
said dump and constructing a bomb store. Truly, there is no rest for the sapper.
We continue
to hear rumours of German retreat. All our fingers are crossed(1).
Source: WW1/WD3
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