Friday 1st
March 1918
7th Battalion,
Bedfordshire Regiment has moved to Rouez Camp, north of Viry-Noureuil and west
of Tergnier. Headquarters and three companies are at the camp itself whilst C
Company is in nearby Noureuil. The camp is not far behind the front line and
during the day officers and NCOs reconnoitred the assembly position in case of
an enemy attack.
There is some
speculation on this point. With Russia no longer in the war and the Americans
not yet on the western front in any numbers some are of opinion that the
Germans now have a superiority in men and resources over the allies here and so
may see the time as propitious to make an attack in an effort to defeat our
armies and those of the French before the Americans arrive. We have even heard
the hope expressed that the enemy will attack as he is sure to get a bloody
nose. Others point to the fact that our Fifth Army is now dangerously
stretched, with less men and a longer line to hold.
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