Item 02: Thomas Alcock war narrative, 28 July 1915-1917 - Page 142

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we had no further visitation from the Germans, about half an hour after stand to. 3 Germans came through as prisoners, one had been wounded in the shoulder with a bayonet thrust, they were a party of men belonging to the German A.M.C. and very voluble in their explanations of how it all occurred. It appears, from what was said later, that the Germans had sent out a lot of patrols and in the mist they had advanced up to the front line or what was acting as the front line.

The system adopted at this line was a series of outposts dug to accommodate say a platoon of men. These were here and here.

The Germans captured one of these posts, evidently coming

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