Although Greg was down to do a shoot today, there was no shoot to do so he didn’t fly. On the ground, the front on the Lys sector was starting to move eastwards: on this day, British forces liberated Merville.
Diary
Monday Aug 19th. Down for shoot – none to do, so did not fly.
Merville Liberated
As the tide began to turn, British ground forces on the Lys sector today retook Merville. The Germans had taken it on 11 April 1918, the day of General Haig’s ‘Backs-to-the-Wall’ order:
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