Friday 26 July 1918 – Shelled in St Venant

Yesterday’s windy weather was followed today by rain, which forced Greg down from a counter battery patrol.  A subsequent exploration of St Venant  didn’t go entirely to plan, thanks to the German artillery…

Log Book

Log BookLog Book

Date: 26.7.17 
Time: 5.45 
Rounds: - 
Bombs: 4 
RE8: E27 
Observer: Lt. Hodgson 
Time: 1 hr 30 m 
Height: 3000 
Course/Remarks: CBP.  Forced down by rainstorm.

Diary

Diary

Friday July 26th.  CBP (5.30am).  1½ hours.  Forced down by rain.

Went down to St Venant in the afternoon.  While exploring in some of the houses Fritz started shelling.  Cleared out pretty quickly.  Managed to pick up piece of shell as souvenir.

More on CBP here:

Counter Battery Patrols and Zone Calls

Earlier visits to St Venant here:

Saturday 20 July 1918 – Shoot and Visit to St Venant

Monday 22 July 1918 – Another Shoot with 213 SB

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