. How armies fight. Promellcs~ KEY TO MAP 4i Company of Infantry {about 100 men). i \ „ „ „ tn tranches. A,,§c These Letters give the Names of the Com-panies. ? The Tool Cart of a Battalion. -g. The Ammunition Cart of a Battalion. Paths made through Hedges and, Fences. -> Direction in which the Troops move during the Battle. blue $»- Direction of the German Attack. |_=. Battery of Artillery (6 gvms). l^\ „ „ „ intrenched. -z- -=. Single Guns. A Fortified H •^k A Demolished House. -C7- A Splinter-Proof. ~fy Trees and Hedges cut down. An Abatis of Branches and Wire. A Wire Entanglement. A
. How armies fight. Promellcs~ KEY TO MAP 4i Company of Infantry {about 100 men). i \ „ „ „ tn tranches. A,,§c These Letters give the Names of the Com-panies. ? The Tool Cart of a Battalion. -g. The Ammunition Cart of a Battalion. Paths made through Hedges and, Fences. -> Direction in which the Troops move during the Battle. blue $»- Direction of the German Attack. |_=. Battery of Artillery (6 gvms). l^\ „ „ „ intrenched. -z- -=. Single Guns. A Fortified H •^k A Demolished House. -C7- A Splinter-Proof. ~fy Trees and Hedges cut down. An Abatis of Branches and Wire. A Wire Entanglement. A Collecting Station for Wounded Men. HOW THE GUARDS FORTIFY TROU-DU-BOIS. 175 of Ellencourt Farm, we come to the right of the A Company of the Coldstreams has dug a sheltertrench behind a hedge (Fig. 13), through which the mencan fire hidden from the enemys view. This trench ismade facing towards the north-west, in order to repulsethe Germans if they make a flank attack on the British. Fig. 13.—The Trench made by A Company op the Coldstreams. In the drawing the trench has been cut through vertically to show how it is made,a is the parapet piled up behind the hedge to protect the firer, who is shooting througha loophole (d) made of bags of earth. 6 is the bank of earth thrown up behind thetrench to protect the men from the back blast of howitzer high-explosive shells, forwhen these shells burst, their effect is felt as severely behind them as in front, c isthe bank of earth at the end of the trench to protect the men from enfilade fire. position from Witterzee. The men are, therefore, as youwill see from the map, rather exposed to the danger ofbeing hit by bullets or shells coming from their left. Theyare, in fact, exposed to enfilade fire, as fire is called whenit is directed along a line of men. The parapet in front isnot much protection against this sort of fire, so, instead of 176 HOW THE GUARDS FORTIFY TROU-DU-BOIS. digging one long trench, A
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