official history
Military Operations, France and Belgium 1918, vol. 5
James E. Edmonds, 1947
Named on the page for Battle of Cambrai (1917).
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20 November – 7 December 1917
Battle of Cambrai (1917)
CHAPTER XIV
Battle of Cambrai, 1918 (concluded). 8th October (concluded) .. oi es ee ae The Third Army and the First Army (Right Wing) Note :—The Germans on 8th October . a
THE BATTLES OF THE HINDENBURG LINE!
To G.H.Q. at the time the operations were known as “‘ Battle of Cambrai - St. Quentin ”, and divided into 1st and 2nd Phases, 27th-30th September, and 3rd Phase, 8th-10th October.
XVII CORPS. 27TH SEPTEMBER 35
half a mile between the northern corps boundary, next to the Canadians, and the southern edge of Moeuvres behind the 52nd Division. The Moeuvres-Graincourt road was the southern boundary, so, as this road ran aslant, the division had gradually to increase its frontage to about two miles as it advanced. The 188th Brigade (Br.-General J..F. S. D. Coleridge) was in second line, and the 189th (Br.-General B. J. Curling) in reserve. The canal was crossed by two battalions of the 190th after some stiff fighting, the third battalion being used to mop up the canal banks, and all three reached the first objective and a position astride the Hindenburg Support. Here, about 8 a.m., they were held up in front, and progress down the Hindenburg Support by two battalions was delayed by machine-gun fire, particu- larly from a sugar factory beyond it. An attack by a platoon on this building, already well known in the Battle of Cambrai in the previous autumn, having failed, a message was sent back without result asking for an artillery “ crash ” on it, and further movement ceased until the advance of the 188th and 189th Brigades in the afternoon. Of four tanks, two caught fire whilst still on the western bank and the other two, after dealing with machine-gun posts in the Hindenburg Support, came to a halt through mechanical trouble.
CHAPTER XIV
CHAPTER XIV BATTLE OF CAMBRAI 1918 (concluded) 8TH OCTOBER (concluded) Tue THIRD ARMY AND THE First ARMY (RIGHT WING) (Sketch 16)
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