Tuesday 17 October 2017

Seventy Ninth Day of the Third Battle of Ypres



Wednesday 17th October 1917

Today 1st Battalion, Bedfordshire Regiment, has been practising an attack, according to the adjutant: “with special reference to pill boxes, barrages, counter-attack, communication, sectional advances, rapid consolidation, fire control, bayonet, Lewis gun, rifle grenades and smoke” a very full account of the way modem war is fought. Afterwards the commanding officer, Lieutenant-Colonel P R Worrall MC, gave a lecture on the subject. In the afternoon the second-in-command, Major Halford, took a course for all officers in map reading.

Source: X550/2/5

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