1917, APRIL 10th – MARCHED TO RESERVE BILLETS AT MONCHY-LAGACHE
Marched to reserve billets at Monchy-Lagache.
From The Story of the 2/4th Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry, by Captain G. K. Rose M.C. (Oxford: B.H. Blackwell, 1920)
Next morning many of us walked along the Holnon road to view St. Quentin, whose cathedral and factory chimneys were only visible between the storms. The town seemed undestroyed. The Germans were busy shelling its approaches. Salvoes of their 5.9s fell steadily, and black splashes of earth jumped up ever and again, whilst smoke from the preceding shells coiled and drifted away to the west.
Oxfordshire & Buckinghamshire Light Infantry (The 2/4th Battalion) 