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"At Braisne the First cavalry division met with considerable opposition from infantry and machine-guns holding the town and guarding the bridge. With the aid of some of our infantry it gained possession of the town about midday, driving the enemy to the north.
That day they joined battle with the outposts of a foe that was to prove more hateful and persistent than the German winter. The name of a village known as Suchy-le-Château figured on many of the signposts that they passed, but they never arrived there, and, branching off east of Braisne, they came upon the remainder of the Battalion, drawn up in a stubble field.
Early in the morning the cavalry under General Allenby swept out from the town of Braisne on the Vesle and harried in every direction the strong detachments that had been sent forward, driving them back to the Aisne.
He went mad from a sun-stroke he got in the fields." "How much do you earn?" "Five sous a day while the season lasts; I catch 'em as far as the Braisne. In harvest time, I glean; in winter, I spin." "You are about twelve years old?" "Yes, monsieur." "Do you want to come with me? You shall be well fed and well dressed, and have some pretty shoes."
He went mad from a sun-stroke he got in the fields." "How much do you earn?" "Five sous a day while the season lasts; I catch 'em as far as the Braisne. In harvest time, I glean; in winter, I spin." "You are about twelve years old?" "Yes, monsieur." "Do you want to come with me? You shall be well fed and well dressed, and have some pretty shoes."
Some hundred prisoners were captured around Braisne, where the Germans had thrown a large amount of field-gun ammunition into the river, where it was visible under two feet of water. "On our right the French reached the line of the River Vesle.
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