Tuesday 5th December 1916: From our Correspondent in the Field
The adjutant
of the 8th Battalion, at Givenchy-lès-la-Bassée spoke to me again this evening
on the “blower”. Early this morning, while it was still dark, enemy trench
mortars bombarded the left flank of their position. Fortunately no damage was
done.
The Battalion
spotted enemy attempts to dig a trench near one of the many mine craters that
dot the landscape hereabouts called Red Dragon Crater (shown in red on the map
above, the British front line shown in blue). To impede progress of this undertaking the Battalion bombarded the area
with indirect machine-gun fire and fired rifle grenades into the area. Sadly
two other ranks from the Battalion have been killed during the day by snipers.
