Item 02: Thomas Alcock war narrative, 28 July 1915-1917 - Page 196

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attack at any-time, and it was necessary for us to be constantly on the alert against them.

The cry of stand to was frequent, although in many cases a false alarm.

As regards the direct area affected by us there was plenty of fighting going on around, things on the whole however were quiet.

On the right what we took for attack by (our own) the Germans turned out to be our own men who were going back to a better position to escape from the flammenwefer [flamethrower] which was being used by the enemy in their efforts to approach the trenches occupied

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