Charles E W Bean, Diaries, AWM38 3DRL 606/156/1 - March 1917 - Part 2

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line was) used to be
enfiladed by 5.9s from
Queant
Diagram - see original document
A cruciform strong post
ws also made abt on the grid
line below (5 + 6 (central)) but
this ws seen by a German
aeroplane & from tt moment
ws shelled direct heavily.
The 27 Bn had dug 3
posts on the left - betw
the rly & the Hindenbg
line (thro 29D & 5B) They
were pretty awkward to 

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hold & some of the 27 Bn
were blown out here on
the nigh day of the attack.
The casualties amongst
offrs on 3^rd May were
Capt Carroll & Lt McCulloch, wd.
Lt Flannery ws wd on
the 6^th May.
At Lagnicourt 25 Bn
had patrols out. One
offr in charge of a
patrol ws k. 

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26 Bn.
Malt trench.
Capt P.H. Cherry got M.C.
here. 5 gaps were suppd
to be cut by ou MTMs.
4 were found as
marked.
The 3 Coys made 3
isolated attacks
↑    ↑      ↑

A   C   B Coy
D in reserve.
B Coy went at junction of
Lonpart Rd & to left.
C Coy cdnt find a gap; 

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but not finding it,
Cherry ran down to
rt & led his men thro
in single file near
where B Coy were.
He went up & down
behind barrage to find it.
A Coy found a gap at
once & bombed down
to right. C Coy bombed
up to the left to meet
our them. With the
5^th Bde on rt they had
password Smith Wisdom;
7th Countersign Smith. 

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 As C Coy bombed to the
left they heard German
shouting w Visden in
response to our Wisdom.
A number of these
Germans were squeezed
in between the two —
& some of them cleared
back over the top
(Later we always
used signs such as
"Thorough" & "Through" wh
Germans cd not pronounce).
B Coy had much /
hardest fight, getting
in & while in / trench.  It did 

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Cherry captrd
2 mgs in malt trench
wh he personally 
turned on the enemy. 
Cherry k. a good part
of crew of one himself.
Cherry wd in
face after getting in
but remained.
x Lt Glasgow. B Coy. ws
wd imd. after getting in &
has since lost his leg (a brother
of B. Gen. Glasgow - his first fight -
& he shaped splendidly.
Lt Hall, badly wd in back, probly too close to our barrage.
Capt Woods, M.C. in first thro the wire there - hit in thigh by shell soon after getting in - shell wd
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not last long. But there
ws a network of small
trenches _^& many dugouts; 3 out of 4
offrs were wd. within
3 or 4 mins of getting
into the trench.
As soon as we had
the trench we pushed
posts ahead.
27 Bn had one
coy in who were to
file up the _^Loupart Road
After 26 Bn got
into Malt Lieut Ward x
(k. next day) being the
only offr of B Coy left, 

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Ward. ws close in thro gap
after Wood. Glasgow & Hall
were hit first - Hall before
getting into trench. Glasgow probly
m.g. just getting in, a
very bad wd.
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(The 27^th were in the
Road at this time)
went into the trench
on the right hand side
o / road (probly squeezed
in by Cherry). He handed
over to 27 Bn.
Germans bombed
27 Bn out killing 2
offrs. & wounding a
third (Julge)
Ward had gone
up the road to a
post up towards
Grevillers trench (abt 200
yds). Ward sent
a message back tt
he ws in the air; 

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& Ward refused his
right flank & put
a post on Rd N of
Malt trench.
C.O. sent up Robinson
to this.
27 Bn later bombed
thro' & connected with
5 Bde abt 10 a.m. They
captd a German
doctor in a deep
dugout w 2 entrances
in that trench.
On the left the 28 Bn
attacked along N of
Gamp trench.  Wire ws
not cut. They had 

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X
Lloyd got D.C.M. Pozieres
M.C. at Malt
* They had 3 good grenade.
fights w the Germans here before
they got the Pimple - Ch Pte
Robinson & Neil O'Neill
were both in this fighting.
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2 attacks. Then they
came up Emma Alley
& w / assistance
of Lloyd ^x (26 Bn) bombed
* Germans out & put
in a block at the head
of the Sunken Rd from
Warlencourt on left.
A continuous
line ws later dug for
attack on Loupart
wh never came off.
Abt 6 a.m. on morning
of attack the Germans
were seen _^by Cherry & Ward filing
out along Loupart
Rd & then into a 

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fold in / ground to
the E of the road where
they lined up parallel
to Malt.
They were only
abt 40 yds away
from our people in
the posts but cd
not be see us. owing
Our men thought at
first tt they were going
to Surrender - it looked
at first as if they were
Germans who had
cleared out o / line
when we got into it.
As soon as we
got saw them gettin