War Diary entries: “March 2l: Our positions were subjected to a severe enemy bombardment commencing at 4.30am, gas shells being freely used on our back areas and keeps. At 9am under a heavy smoke barrage, a strong hostile attack was launched, penetrating the Forward Zone and surrounding Enghien Redoubt.

11.10am: The Boches make a big bombing attack from three sides, which looks very ugly at one time; but the men fight well, and we drive them back, killing about 15.

11.30am: We are now practically surrounded, I go down to 12 Post and find them very happy, a Vickers Gun having killed 60 Germans, whose bodies can be seen in the fog, hanging on the wire. The Battalion held out till 4pm.”

Robin Marriott