Thursday 9th
August 1917
Last night
11th Division were able to advance their front line up to a couple of enemy
strongpoints, unopposed along the line of a stream called the Steenbeek. If the
enemy are not willing to defend strongpoints it gives hope for the 7th
Battalion’s forthcoming attack.
Today has
been fine, with a good breeze blowing which must have helped to dry the ground.
Officers and non-commissioned officers of the 7th Battalion have continued to
examine the features of the landscape to be attacked. This attack, we
understand, is likely to take place tomorrow. After receiving tea and rum the
platoons have been passed forward with guides to their forming up positions.
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