Friday, 15 September 2017

Forty Seventh Day of the Third Battle of Ypres


Saturday 15th September 1917

Today there have been, again, a few isolated attacks. 47th (1st/2nd London) Division used 7th Battalion, London Regiment, to launch an attack on a strong-point near Inverness Copse. Meanwhile 1st/4th East Lancashires of 42nd Division took a point called Sans Souci. Perhaps the most interesting “attack” was a Chinese attack undertaken by 51st (Highland) Division. A Chinese attack uses dummy figures to draw enemy fire either to pin the enemy in place for a bombardment or to deceive him into thinking an attack is coming from that direction when, in fact, it is coming from another.


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