Tuesday 27th
November 1917
A week into
the Battle of Cambrai things seem to have bogged down in an all too familiar fashion.
Last Tuesday’s great offensive held out such great prospects of a breakthrough
to the green fields beyond the front lines that, we are told, church bells were
sounded at home, though we did not hear them here. Since then the right flank
of the attack has simply dug in and consolidated whilst the left flank has
become embroiled in a rather fruitless struggle for Bourlon Wood
Today 62nd
(2nd West Riding) Division and thirty tanks made another attack on the wood. At
first success seemed within their grasp but the inevitable counter-attack seems
to have wiped out any gains made.
Source: X550/6/8
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