Sunday 26th
August 1917
There has
been rain again today, in this blighted month of August - steady at times,
which has made the battlefield once again into a stagnant lake in places. With
a temperature of 70 degrees(1) it has also been muggy and sapping. It has been
the enemy’s turn to launch small, local attacks today. An outpost of 24th
Division was seized in the vicinity of Shrewsbury Forest, but it was
immediately retaken.
At dawn the Germans
attacked four posts of 23rd Division south of Inverness Copse. Using
flame-throwers they managed to force one of these posts back, but the men at
the others beat them off.
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