Lewis war diary, August 1917-March 1919 / James Ray Lewis - Page 107
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[Page 107]
but the officer did not live; he had had his head split open with a rifle butt. Informal exchanges like this are often made under a white flag by the stretcher bearers.
One night here I fell down a snipers post about 5 feet deep I never hurt myself though one never can in France. We got another bombard also one morning.
A six inch battery officer used to observe here. One day we noticed that some of the Fritzs used to take a short cut, where their C,T, took a sharp turn by jumping out, and running through the wheat and jumping back into it again. So he order a few shots to be fired on it. "The telephone was connected to us". It was the first time I had seen the 6 inchers burst and it is some burst a funnel shaped column of white smoke rushes up at least 20 feet high woosh!
Directly in Front and about ¾ of a mile away is a village known as Marcelcare. The most noticeable thing about it is a tall broken down looking tower, said to have been a sugar factory. From here we went into an outpost, out in front just across the Cambrai