Sunday 2nd
December 1917
Here at
Cambrai there is hope that the German attack has stalled. There has been fierce
fighting again around the villages of Gonnelieu, les Rues Vertes and Masnières
but the Bedfords have still not been engaged.
The adjutant
tells us that just after midnight he received orders for the Battalion to move to
Plush Trench and take up a position to the junction with Highland Road. They were all in position
by 6.45 this morning and then passed a very quiet day until about 5.15 when
orders were received that they were to be battalion in brigade reserve with two
companies in the Hindenburg Support Line astride the road from Marcoing to
Ribecourt, the former village now being in enemy hands, the other two remaining
in Plush Trench
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