masingarbe

Updated: May 8, 2025

Farther away within the zone of the enemy's fire the traffic ceased, and I came into the desolate lands of death, where there is but little movement, and the only noise is that of guns. I passed by ruined villages and towns. To the right, a few hundred yards away, was Masingarbe, from which many of our troops marched out to begin the great attack.

Philip Gibbs - Now It Can Be Told

No men were out of the trenches yet, though some were being killed there and elsewhere, at the crossroads by Philosophe, and outside the village of Masingarbe, and in the ruins of Vermelles, and away up at Cambrin and Givenchy. The German guns were answering back intermittently, but holding most of their fire until human flesh came out into the open. The battle began at dawn on September 25th.

Philip Gibbs - Now It Can Be Told