KRRC 1918

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How strange that you should have been to the very place such a short while ago.

Yes, very interesting reading Andy.  Have you got a little map you can post of the area!  that would be good to see.  I know where the Ovillers ridge is but not sure of the position of the rest of the battlefield.  It's not what they call 'mash valley' is it? 

[Andy Pay]

Atom,
Wrong area, the 5th Army took over quite a considerable length of the French trenches in Late January 1918, which, according to the 14th Division's War Diary, were in a deplorble state. No Battle Zone or rear areas prepared whatsoever. The area this covers is just outside St. Quentin not Ovilliers on the Somme.
I will see if I can get a map from the War Diary and post it here for you.

Andy

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Look forward to that Andy! 

I wondered when I read "The first warning was their appearance moving down the road from St Quentin"  

Anne