Puits 14 Bis east of Loos
Monday 9th July 1917
Readers will
remember yesterday your correspondent remarking that 8th Battalion, Bedfordshire
Regiment are currently in what is dubbed a quiet sector on the old Loos
battlefield. Fortunately he also remarked that in reality it as never really
quiet, so close are the two sets of rival trenches. This has been borne out
again last night and today.
The adjutant
reports that at midnight a short heavy hostile bombardment took place on the
Brigade front on their right. Then at 1 a.m., fearing a German raid or larger
attack, the Battalion released gas from cylinders and fired projectors into
Hulluch and nearby mine workings and pit-head called Puits 14 Bis, due east of
Loos (Hulluch lies north-east of Loos and north of Puits 14 Bis). In the event
there was practically no retaliation by the enemy, though he used varied
coloured lights for his alarms.
Captain Steyn [X550/1/82]
During the
day today Captain P Steyn has been wounded. Seven other ranks have shared a
similar fate.
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