notified that all the trenches on the north of the MENIN ROAD had been lost and requested that fire be turned on to the road opposite the CRATER and 100 yards each side of it this was at 5a.m. The smoke and dust of the shell fire obscured the view and owing to the heavy fire all communication forward was cut very shortly after and batteries continued firing on their night lines until the Infantry Brigade H.Q. The enemy commenced an intense bombardment of our trenches coincident with the liquid fire but not a shot had been fired before. in SANCTUARY WOOD, advancing across the open in massed formation and they were mown down by the artillery fire. trenches as fast as a man could run, the flames appearing about 10ft. signal was immediately taken up by the remainder of the Brigade and passed to the other Brigades, long before it was received from the Inf. 2 nd Line trench saw a sheet of flame go up apparently behind the stables He immediately opened fire at a rapid rate, and reported to 48 th Brigade H.Q. C/48 who was looking over the parapet of the G.H.Q. were then asked if they required any assistance but replied no. ![]() The 47 th and 48 th Brigades on being asked replied that all was quiet on their front. a violent bombardment opened in the direction of Hill 60. ![]() on the 30/31 st July 1915.ģ0 th July At about 3 a.m. Extract from a Report of the 14 th Divisional Artillery at Hooge describing a bombardment with ‘liquid fire’, the first use of a flamethrower, (Catalogue ref: WO 95/1864) Transcript
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