Charles E W Bean, Diaries, AWM38 3DRL 606/58/1 - September 1916 - Part 1

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First World War, 1914–18
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AWM3S Official History, 1974-18 War: Records of C E W Bean, Official Historian. Diaries and Notebooks Hem number: 3DR160615817 Title: Diary, September 1976 Discusses Capt Duncan Maxwell and Capt C A Litter, the VCaward and Mouquet Farm. AWMISS-SDRLCO61SSH
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2 farm ws clearet i 68.9.3 a germans Beforeattack men were sland. Men wenblst Now h wil atr ter 4
2.27 seam. b sent down deyont B3084 to loop for erms. 3 tell them to conta. He went down talken Syman set there was a lunnel + that the Germans had gone away down it -orenzos 3431. X sax to it blown . hovengo reports Consoliaty Yoing on O.K. Lewis Funs blown out wants some move guns to teams & also some sobs of ght to be taken overby Canadeans At abt. I came down (by the trainw 7t the Bapanme Rd) to Div. HC. was havin Gen Cox tea oten Gen. Tough came in & told the Genual how pleased he was your many had not (got the Farm but any were past it - the news is it they are in on both sides being up the? rom 591 42 as well as at 94 umans in Octriny There are Sr. The positi on the N of the ertain un i is still
British ma 26 19 4 The canadcans have one up to 42 The 134 3n 1560 in between 245 2 coys oul there at prescn What happend list night was. As soon an the Carrage started our men got over under it - a little close under it perhaps But it was an excelling
barrage. Very few are hit. (The moment the bare lifted they were into the Farm [a white tape guided tem to their you up place (the 511 They layout tor houts the difficuly tmbe E16 as to clep te in awake- They kept 4t lef on dooppig with tts attack ahead them) and their office were really anxious lest a patrol might come over of them sleep Io was bitterly cold had tot The .C
19 wake the wen before the allack? When they got on the found many German or more, killed 6 the bourbardment. The Jermans were an diyouts & eod ast come out. The months are dugonts hadbu barricaded & key were simple openings on the rubbish eap leading to cellars a all faciy to the I B
our men over the dupouts & went on The 5 th wave stopp to concoledate. The 2 platoons 6 of te 5end who el them under an officer ere there amongt then nt closs work they had no sooner got to the Farm (& the first Clnes than they found out ove a m.9. firing on them in the halflight. Io was hard to tell by I sound whether it ws Boyds or 5oyds away but it we damnably close. They were hunting for it. bombirg & precently it ceased. Undoubledly it had bu drazged up outd oned 15 dugouts andwas
19 firing from behind the dus out month- infilating 2mgs were captured (one -blown up by a ws afterwos german of wck shell - tther ws smashed by us io a rifle The germans had a barriede in I month of one of theis duponity atI bollow of stairs - with a 2 ft hole lefton it out of wh they fired a rife grinade & wounded some of our men. we threw bombs & then smoke bombs, down. The smoke bombs did the trick – brought the germans out of an entrance farther back, t their hands up. 3 Dujonts were cleared 2 remained wh were prof clearedalso- Tho one
19 two formans may have remained in them the 520d got some ten also into the Crench at 62& to the right of it t But there seems to been a gap between 12 442 wh ought to have been filled by the 515t. The 515t under cifferd & Maccattum coy had swar (according to Morrell) too far to the left & were holding a time in the openth 200-ydo beyond the Farm but not quite upto 12 which we never got. (he say The support Coy under williams was digging in the Farm & a sax hadbeen

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