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Being obscured from the enemy's view, it was a covered means of approach to the infantry positions in front, and afforded at the same time cover for the guns. On this account it was never free from shell fire, and was littered with corpses of men and horses. In the afternoon the Battalion had to take over the front line in the neighbourhood of Arrow Head Copse in front of Guillemont.
It was long before he lost hope of keeping the division together, though it was hard to get recruits and losses were high at Guillemont and Ginchy. For the first time he lost heart and was very sad when the division was cut to pieces in a Flanders battle.
Away to the rear over Guillemont for the Australians were pushing almost in an opposite direction from the great British attack the first light of day glowed angrily on the lower edges of the leaden clouds. You could faintly distinguish objects a hundred yards away.
Thiepval, Ovillers, and La Boiselle were positions in the German front line. East of the last place the fortified village of Contalmaison occupied high ground, forming as it were a pivot in the German intermediate line covering their field guns. The British second position ran through Pozières to the two Bazentins and as far as Guillemont.
Maurepas was of great military importance, for, with Guillemont on the British front, it formed advanced works of the stronghold of Combles. The attack was launched at five in the evening on a front of a mile and a quarter from north of Hardecourt to southeast of Maurepas.
September was a better month for both the Allies. There was a general attack on the 3rd, when Guillemont, which had been disputed for six weeks, was carried at length, and the French rushed Le Forest, Cléry, and the German lines up to the outskirts of Combles.
In the evening of the same day the Germans made four attacks on the British lines to the northwest of Pozières, and in one were successful in occupying a portion of a British trench. During this day the French north of the Somme, while the British were fighting at Guillemont, advanced east of Hill 139, north of Hardecourt, and took forty prisoners.
Grinding of courage of three powerful races A ridge that will be famous Germans on the defensive Efforts to maintain their morale Gas shells Summer heat, dust and fatigue Prussian hatred of the British Dead bodies strapped to guns Guillemont a granulation of bricks and mortar and earth "We've only to keep at them, sir" Stalking machine guns Machine guns in craters British cheerfulness The war will be over when it is won Soldiers talk shop An incident of brutal militarism Simple rules for surviving shell fire A "happy home" with a shell arriving every minute Business-like monotony of the battle Insignificance of one man among millions A victory of position, of will, of morale!
Guillemont cites the instance of a woman who was killed by a stroke of lightning, but whose fetus was saved; while Fabricius Hildanus describes a case in which there was perforation of the head, fracture of the skull, and a wound of the groin, due to sudden starting and agony of terror of the mother. Here there was not the slightest history of any external violence.
They were the granulation of bricks and mortar and earth mixed by the blasts of shell fire which crushed solids into dust and splintered splinters. Guillemont lay beyond Trônes Wood across an open space where the German guns had full play.
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