. The story of the 2/4th Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry . ntin. Re-serve companies garrisoned these posts. No ardu-ous duties spoilt the days; night work consistedchiefly in pushing trolley-loads of rations to thefront line. Of these posts the best rememberedwould be Winchester, where existed a board bearingthe names of Wykhamists, whom chance had ledthat way. Battalion Headquarters were there fora long time and were comfortable enough with manvelephant dug-outs and half a farm-house for amess—the latter ludicrously decorated by somepredecessors with cuttings from La Vie Parisi
. The story of the 2/4th Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry . ntin. Re-serve companies garrisoned these posts. No ardu-ous duties spoilt the days; night work consistedchiefly in pushing trolley-loads of rations to thefront line. Of these posts the best rememberedwould be Winchester, where existed a board bearingthe names of Wykhamists, whom chance had ledthat way. Battalion Headquarters were there fora long time and were comfortable enough with manvelephant dug-outs and half a farm-house for amess—the latter ludicrously decorated by somepredecessors with cuttings from La Vie Parisienneand other picture papers. Though conditions were never quiet in the frontline, during the summer of 1916 back area shellingwas infrequent. Shells fell near Laventie cross-roads on most days and, when a 12 inch howitzerestablished itself behind the village, the Germansretaliated upon it with , but otherwise shops andestaminets flourished with national railway, which ran from La Gorgue to Armen-tieres, was used by night as far as Bac St. Maur—. WINCHESTER TRENCH. 12 LAVENTIE, MAY TO OCTOBER, I916. an instance of unenterprise on the part of Germangunners. Despite official repudiation, on our sidethe principle of live and let live was still appliedto back areas. Trench warfare, which in the wordsof a 1915 pamphlet could and must cease hadmanaged to survive that pamphlet and the abortivestrategy of the battle of Loos. Until trench war-fare ended divisional headquarters were not shelled. Meanwhile the comparative deadlock in theSomme fighting rendered necessary vigorousmeasures against the enemy elsewhere on the gas attack from the Fauquissart sector wasplanned but never carried out. Trench mortarsand rifle grenades were continuously employed tomake life as unpleasant as possible for the enemy,whose trenches soon became, to all appearances, arubbish heap. All day and much of the night themediums fell in and about the German trenchesand, it must be
Size: 1412px × 1769px
Photo credit: © Reading Room 2020 / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookcentury1900, bookdecade1920, bookpublisheroxfor, bookyear1920
