Monday 26th March 1917 from
our correspondent in the field
It might be
thought beneath a cavalryman’s dignity to get off his horse and dig, certainly
the knights of old would have thought so. In this modern war, however, there
is, at present, very little role for cavalry. Thus Second Lieutenant Fields
Clarke and Second Lieutenant Wing and seventy troopers of the Bedfordshire
Yeomanry find themselves ordered to go forth with shovels and dig in the area
occupied by VI Corps.
