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Updated: May 26, 2025
"What?" came a startled chorus from about half a dozen other officers. "Take photos from 'Jacob's Ladder," they repeated in tones of amazement. "Good Lord! it's an absolute death-trap. Bosche strafes it every day, and it's always covered by snipers." "Well," I said, "it certainly seems by the map to be an ideal place to get the mine going up and the advance over 'No Man's Land."
"And I want at least an hour to look round and find a suitable spot; so three o'clock will suit me very well." "Hullo!" I said, as I heard the crack of a 5.9 crump burst just outside the dug-out. "Can't Bosche let you alone here?" "No," he said, "he strafes us sometimes.
"Intermittent strafes we are used to, but this all-day performance seems to indicate that the Boche is really getting down to it for once. The whole proceeding reminds me of nothing so much as our own 'artillery preparation' before the big push at Loos." "Then you think the Boches are going to make a push of their own?" "I do; and I hope it will be a good fat one.
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