About the Death You Gave Me

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Read manhwa About the Death You Gave Me / 당신이 건넨 죽음에 대하여 / About The Death You Handed Me
The secret lover of the devil duke, the duke’s maid.
It’s ridiculous.
Because Eslyn was the princess of the empire who died by his hand!
“Princess Eslyn, I brought you your poisoned cup.”
The face of the devil who told her to die is still vivid. But.
“My Esy, whom I love and respect. Your servant has come.”
Who on earth is that man who whispers sweet words of love?
Author(S): N/A Eslyn could not become the lover of the man who killed her.
That was also her last pride as a princess who dreamed of the throne.
Will Eslyn be able to escape safely from that beast-like man wh...

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Read manhwa About the Death You Gave Me / 당신이 건넨 죽음에 대하여 / About The Death Y
The secret lover of the devil duke, the duke’s maid.
It’s ridiculous.
Because Eslyn was the princess of the empire who died by his hand!
“Princess Eslyn, I brought you your poisoned cup.”
The face of the devil who told her to die is still vivid. But.
“My Esy, whom I love and respect. Your servant has come.”
Who on earth is that man who whispers sweet words of love?
Eslyn could not become the lover of the man who killed her.
That was also her last pride as a princess who dreamed of the throne.
Will Eslyn be able to escape safely from that beast-like man who is strangely obsessed
with the maid?
What on earth can a princess who has become a maid do?
… More than that, was everything Eslyn knew the truth?

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Pelves and by 10.30 all objectives had been gained, including Pelves,
the trenches to the south and Hat and Kit trenches. At 10.30 the
Princess Pats and the 42nd Battalion thrust for Jigsaw Wood and,
despite terrific machine gun fire, captured this strong point. The line
thus gained was consolidated and during the night of August
28th29th was handed over to Brutinel's Brigade. "G" operated with
the 42nd and eventually occupied defensive positions in the Bois du
Sart while "H" Battery covered the advance
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168 THE CANADIAN "EMMA GEES" of the 49th Battalion

from the Chalk Pit. "E" Battery was located in Cune trench ultimately
while "F" Battery had been held in reserve. It had been an uncertain
day for the gunners, with the situation of the bitter trench-to-trench
fighting always uncertain. The 2nd and 3rd Divisions were utterly
exhausted by three days of bitter fighting and on the night of August
28th-29th were relieved by the 4th British Division and, as
mentioned before, Brutinel's Brigade. Minor operations on the night
of August 29th had advanced the British line. North of the Scarpe
the 51st Division had won to the crest of Greenland Hill. During the
night of August 29th-30th the llth Division, which had transferred to
the Canadian Corps, relieved Brutinel's Brigade and passed to the
G.O.C. 22nd Corps, shortening the line considerably and relieving
Gen. Currie of anxiety caused by the length and vulnerability of the
northern flank. On the 30th, when the 1st C.I.B. daringly attacked
under an ingenious barrage arranged by the divisional artillery, three
batteries of machine guns took part. The barrage planned by the
artillery not only boxed in the whole area but also provided a
barrage for each of the 1st, 2nd and 3rd Battalions engaged in the
smart manoeuvre. The battalions jumped off at 4.40 a.m. and by
7.30 had effected a junction as planned, though all had met with
stubborn resistance. Three batteries of No. 1 Company, 1st Battalion,
C.M.G.C., sup ported this attack and as the infantry slowly but
inexorably worked their bombing way up trenches, these batteries
got fleeting targets in small enemy groups breaking overland. Four
German guns were brought into action by "A" and "B" batteries and
fired thousands of rounds. At noon, when the enemy attacked
between Upton Wood and Hendecourt, six guns of "A" Battery had
good shooting and, when our infantry were forced to a temporary
withdrawal, "B" Battery covered the move. On the 31st the
remainder of the Fresnes-Rouvroy line south of the Arras-Cambria
road, including Ocean Work, was captured by the 2nd C.I.B. In the
meantime the 4th (British) Division had pushed doggedly ahead,
crossing the valley of the Sensee River and winning the villages of
Haucourt, Remy and Enterpigny. That night, the 4th Canadian
Division, just in the area a few days after continuing the fight at
Amiens, went into the line on a one-brigade front between the 1st
Canadian Division and the 4th British. September 1st had been set
as the date for the final attack on the Drocourt-Queant line. When
the G.O.C. 4th British Division
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DROCOURT-QUEANT LINE 169 reported that he was unable

to successfully attack on the front allotted to him owing to heavy
losses in the preliminary fighting, General Currie decided to extend
the 4th Canadian Division front and a few hours before zero the 12th
C.I.B. was ordered into the line. However, owing to the wire in front
of the Drocourt-Queant line not having been sufficiently cut, the
attack was called off until September 2nd. During the afternoon of
September 1st and in the evening the enemy delivered heavy
counter-attacks against the junction of the 1st and 4th Divisions and
twice our troops gave way slightly but regained the ground at once.
The hand-to-hand fighting for the crest continued until actual zero
hour for the attack. "E" Battery, in support of the 12th C. I. B., fired
10 belts with good effect as one of these evening attacks was
launched at the 72nd Battalion. At 5 a.m. the attack swept forward
for the formidable DrocourtQueant line and, although in recent days
attacks had been battered down to the crawl almost of set-piece
attacks, the Corps' vision was still trained into the distance. There
were no limits set but there were three definite objectives aimed at
and the capture of these would carry the attack over 6,000 more
yards and over three separate lines of trenches in addition to the
frowning Drocourt-Queant system. The blast of artillery fire, with 50
per cent of it devoted to wirecutting, added a new intensity to
modern artillery fire. Counterbattery work reached a new peak of
efficiency as the thickened-up German artillery line was sought out,
battery by battery. Up the Arras-Cambria road were later to go
Brutinel's Brigade, reinforced by the 10th Hussars (British) thrusting
for an opening. Soon from every sector came back cheering news
and soon after prisoners, badly shaken, came back in thickening
lines. All machine gun batteries went into the battle with their
fighting limbers. The batteries of the 1st Battalion C. M. G. C. were
allotted to Brigades on the basis of three to each with three others
held in reserve. The artillery barrage would cease on the Red Line
2,500 to 3,000 yards east of the jump-off and from then on infantry
were to depend on machine gun support. Nine batteries were
allotted by the 4th Battalion C. M. G. C. to the attacking Brigades.
One Battery from each Company ("D," "E" and "J") were assigned
barrage work. Eight guns of the 4th British Battalion M. G. C. were
to provide a rolling barrage in front of the 10th C. I. B. The enemy
had never put up a more vari-colored pyrotechnical
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170 THE CANADIAN "EMMA GEES" display than he did on

this occasion but our barrage seemed to drench it out. It was
drizzling slightly and the dawn was gloomy, partly mask ing our
movements. The Canadians seemed to drive as surely forward in the
darkness as in the daylight. As the attacking brigades surged on,
reports went back that visioned another Amiens, for the enemy,
despite all his dogged fighting of the past few days, showed early
demoralization. "K" Battery of the 1st Battalion C. M. G. C., going
over with the 16th Battalion, encountered little opposition until the
DrocourtQueant line itself was reached. Heavy machine gun fire
from 1,500 east of Cagnicourt was met here and the battery sent
two guns to positions northwest of le Brulle to neutralize this fire.
During the heavy fighting between the Drocourt-Queant line and the
support line, this battery moved closer to Cagnicourt and kept down
enemy machine gun fire coming from southwest of the village.
During this time the Brigade on the right (17th Corps) had been held
up and a wide gap grew wider and in pushing guns up to cover this
flank "K" Battery suffered heavy casualties. There were only enough
men left to carry five guns when the next advance was made to the
Buissy Switch line and these helped consolidate the line. "J" Battery
had jumped off with the 13th Battalion and experi enced much the
same action, except that it came under the point-blank fire of enemy
batteries firing from Cagnicourt Woods. The Battery got its revenge
moving to positions 1,000 yards west of Cagnicourt Woods, from
where it brought direct fire to bear on the German artillery and
machine guns. Capt. R. H. Morris was severely wounded, leaving no
officers in the Battery, and Sergt. E. G. Morey took charge. In order
to engage the enemy more closely, some of the guns were moved
forward of the Drocourt-Queant line and it was here that the crews
became involved in a hand-to-hand fight with enemy machine
gunners. When the 3rd C. I. B's flanks both were up in the air No. 1
Section was sent forward to establish a flank near the Bois de Loison
and from there they poured a steady fire into Buissy Switch line.
Several times during the day our infantry attacked Buissy Switch but
were driven back and crews of this battery were able to cover their
withdrawals. Forty-five minutes after zero "L" Battery of the No. 3
Company, 1st C. M. G. C. Battalion, moved up behind supporting
battalions and took up defensive positions in the Drocourt-Queant
line. Three Batteries of No. 2 Company, 1st Battalion C. M. G. C., sup
ported the advance of the 2nd C. I. B., which met dogged fighting
beyond the Drocourt-Queant support line, where enemy machine
guns
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DROCOURT-QUEANT LINE 171 were thick and artillery and

trench mortars were firing over open sights. When stronger than
usual opposition was encountered about 4 p.m. in the afternoon
near the factory at the eastern end of Cagincourt, a halt was called
until artillery support was arranged and at a normal dinner hour at 6
p.m. the brigade again charged over, clear ing the Buissy Switch and
the sunken road east of Villers-les-Cagnicourt of the enemy. "G"
Battery got plenty of action against enemy machine gun nests and
enemy groups. At 5.45 a.m. Sergt. Billington rushed two guns ahead
of the infantry and engaged a hostile field battery at a range of 800
yards, forcing the enemy crews to retire in disorder, leaving many
dead. A few minutes later Lieut. Harris silenced another field battery
and when the enemy endeavored to remove still another field
battery from the high ground east of Cagnicourt all the horses
brought over the crest of a hill to limber up the guns were killed or
wounded. A mounted Unter-Offizier tried to take charge of the
retirement but he was shot down and the German gunners
abandoned their guns. Six enemy machine guns were captured by
this Battery and they were turned on enemy positions north of
Cagnicourt with good effect. "F" Battery kept in close touch with the
10th Battalion and around 9 o'clock, when the battalion flank was
exposed on the left and could not advance, silenced bothersome
machine gun nests. In this episode 5,000 rounds of German S.A.A.A.
was fired from salvaged enemy machine guns. When the 10th
Battalion, supported by a barrage, attacked the Buissy Switch one
section supplied indirect overhead fire and the other section
engaged selected targets until the Switch was captured at midnight
of the longish day. "H" Battery was in 2nd C. I. B. reserve, being
distributed in defence for the night just east of the Hendecourt-Dury
road. No. 1 Company of the 1st Battalion C. M. G. C. advanced with
the 1st C. I. B., which found itself committed to the fight at one
stage when the advance of the 3rd Battalion was too rapid. "A"
Battery, passing through Cagnicourt, came under heavy fire and
when Capt. Ferrie and Lieut. Hancock were wounded Sergt.-Major T.
Walker took command. His quick work saved the Battery further
casualties though three horses and one limber were knocked out
before he extri cated the group and then took up positions from
which he poured a gruelling fire on the enemy. "B" Battery was
forced to off load guns at 10.30 a.m. 1,200 yards northwest of
Cagnicourt and the battery's eight guns, together with two captured
German guns, were massed against enemy machine gun nests near
Villers-les-Cagnicourt, enabling the infantry to advance with
minimum casualties. "D" Battery guns
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172 THE CANADIAN "EMMA GEES" followed up the attack

and were disposed for the night in the Drocourt-Queant line. On the
4th Division Sector the attacking Brigades, 10th and 12th, despite
the difficulty of their last-minute switch, got off to a good start and
reached the main Drocourt-Queant line without heavy casualties but
from there, where they had charged the heavily-manned trenches
with cold steel, they came under galling machine gun fire from the
Dury ridge, which was admittedly the worst the Green Patch had
ever encountered. "M" Battery went over with the 72nd Battalion on
the right of the 4th Divisional frontage and had already had a
tuning-up when the Germans came across on them the night before.
Lieut. Eaton was wounded early as the whole battery was forced to
man-handle equip ment forward owing to the heavy shelling of all
roads. "L" Battery (Williams) managed to use their limbers right to
the Drocourt-Queant line and arrived with few casualties, advancing
by sections. Eventually the guns were left there in defensive
positions. "H" Battery did not start for an hour after zero by request
of the O. C. 78th Battalion. When our infantry were being badly cut
up by enemy machine gun fire, guns were rushed to a point south of
Mont Dury and 400 yards north of the Arras-Cambria road, from
where two guns secured moving targets. One of these same guns
silenced a trench mortar battery in action on the right from 1,000
yards range. When German field guns were operating within 1,500
yards of the Red Line, Lieut. Carpenter sent back for two guns, but
owing to heavy shelling these could not get through. The 10th C. I.
B. ran into its first real setback when intense machine gun fire from
a sunken road south of Dury and immediately north of Mont Dury
met its advance, but a skillful outflanking move ment captured this
position, 120 prisoners being taken together with 9 machine guns.
With the fall of this position the defence of Dury collapsed and our
troops entered the village, capturing the Area Com mandant, his
assistant and 100 prisoners. No. 1 Company (Britton) was operating
with the 10th C. I. B. "C" Battery (Rainboth) came under heavy
shelling in the assembly area, the 0. C. and five other ranks being
wounded. The battery at one time was headed for positions east of
Dury after a battalion commander said he had captured the village
and was going after Recourt, but fortunately the true situation was
found out before the plans were executed. "A" Battery had lost 50
per cent of its strength when drenched with gas as it was relieved by
French troops at Amiens and had been
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DROCOURT-QUEANT LINE 173 COLOURS OF 1st

BATTALION C. M. G. C. TWO COMMANDING OFFICERS, TWO
SECONDS IN COMMAND AND THE ADJUTANT Lt.-CoI. E. Major V.
Grantham, M.C., Capt. L. G. Francis, M.C. Sansom, D.S.O., Lieut.-Col.
S. W. Watson, D.S.O., Major R. Murdie, D.S.O. reinforced by the first
"draftees." It was still running in ill-fortune it seemed, for on the
battle eve, as it moved up in the jet-black dark ness in a thickening
stream of traffic, it halted for just a moment so that the track
running across the Arras-Cambria road 100 yards in front of the
factory near Crater Bridge, over the Cojuel River, might be identified.
Before the officers could return a sudden, vicious salvo of high
explosive and gas rained down on the halted battery. When Officers
and N. C. O's who had been badly gassed staggered back to the
road, now illuminated by a lorry which had received a direct hit and
was a mass of flames, they found over half the battery transport a
twisted mass of wreckage and men and mules in a wild tangle of
harness. While mules, which the battery had come to know as well
as the "skinners," were mercifully put out of their misery, one of the
skinners, badly wounded himself, searched by the roadside.
Suddenly he found the object of his search. It was Lion, a big
Belgian police dog, which had adopted the original 10th Company
when it first landed
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174 THE CANADIAN "EMMA GEES" in France and had gone

through the Somme, Vimy and Passchendaele and had been slightly
wounded in the salient when he went up the line with the mules.
Only one other rank had been killed but over 20 were wounded. The
"draftees" had come out of their initiatory ordeal splendidly and the
battery remnants spent the rest of the night in the open field 200
yards west of the factory. Later in the day when the battery was
reorganized and was making its way down into the shallow valley to
an old trench in the new rear of the now-captured Drocourt-Queant
Line, a random shell searched it out and as the crew of a section
was returning to take the rest of their equipment out of a half limber,
landed direct and blew the vehicle to bits but failed to even scratch a
driver or mule. "B" Battery also ran into trouble, their assembly area
beside the Arras-Cambria road west of Haucourt being shelled by
heavies and Lieut. Gill being killed among the other casualties
inflicted. The battery was later reorganized and went forward using
pack mules. On reaching Dury, it was found that the advance was
held up. The 44th Battalion had gone through the other battalions
but the line actually held was the first objective and the guns were
ultimately placed in depth in and to the rear of the Drocourt-Queant
line. No. 2 Company was attached to the llth C. I. B. When "H"
Battery was going to the assembly area on the night of September
2nd-3rd three bombs were dropped by enemy planes in the midst of
the transport, killing one driver and wounding six men. Sixteen out, .
of 20 animals were killed or wounded, five limbers destroyed arid
four guns and considerable equipment lost. This necessitated "F"
Battery being detailed to act with the 75th Battalion. "F" and "G"
Batteries both got guns in position and engaged live targets. In all,
these batteries expended 16,000 rounds of am munition in the first
few hours of the attack. Lieut. Leach, M.C., in charge of "G" Battery,
was killed. "F" Battery was asked by the 0. C. 75th Battalion to push
for ward to fire on Rumaucourt and the transport came under direct
artillery and machine gun fire, which killed six animals and destroyed
two limbers, while four guns were put out of action. Eventually, the
batteries were in defensive positions on the for ward slope of Mont
Dury, with "H" Battery, by now reorganized, sending four guns up.
"D," "E" and "J" Batteries reported to No. 3 Company (Bailey) to join
the barrage group. "E" and "D" Batteries found their barrage lines
masked by the 72nd Battalion, but "J" Battery fired 22,000 rounds.
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DROCOURT-QUEANT LINE 175 On the night of September

2nd-3rd our line was a little east of the Red Line. At places the
infantry had penetrated 1,000 yards and even 1,500 yards beyond
this line, but a line parallel to the Red Line at a distance of 500 yards
would give the approximate jumping-off line for further
contemplated action. That same night the 4th (Imperial) Division, on
the left, cap tured Etaing but that did not halt the enfilade fire of
heavies from the left, which ranged up and down the Drocourt-
Queant line and in the support line. Their gunnery wasn't very exact
and machine gun batteries which chose positions in the open were
forced to move several times during the night. Hard fighting was
visioned next day when the attack was to be launched at 5 a.m., but
this zero hour was later cancelled. Prepara tions for an organized
attack with a barrage were cancelled also when an early dawn patrol
reported that the enemy had seemingly with drawn across the canal.
The 1st Division pushed forward first in mid-morning hours and met
with little serious resistance as they captured the Buissy Switch and
thrust forward strong fighting patrols. The 2nd C. I. B. had more
resistance on their sector and suffered severely from machine gun
and artillery fire from the high ground on the east side of the Canal
du Nord. The 4th Division shoved forward about noon and as the
advancing units, widely extended, pushed their way slowly down the
green slopes from the Dury ridge they came under scattered but
heavy artillery fire and, as they neared the west bank of the Canal,
intense machine gun fire. Numerous efforts were made to force
crossings of the Canal but without success. The 102nd Battalion
surrounded a small wood north of the Cambria road and disposed of
its German occupants, who held out to a man. By 3 p.m. in the
afternoon the Division had occupied the villages of Saudemont,
Rumaucourt, EcourtSt. Quentin and a large lake on which was a
chateau, reportedly used as a German army headquarters. French
civilians to the number of one hundred were found in their stone
cottages in Lecluse and Rumau court and these, mostly the very old,
greeted their deliverers with a touching hysterical note. Delicacies
they had kept hidden for four years were dug from hiding places and
offered the Canadians. Practically the same picture greeted the
advancing troops on both the Divisional fronts. On the east bank of
the Canal was a continuously high ridge, dominated by three
eminences that were almost peaks, of which Oisy-le-Verger was the
loftiest. These sloped sharply to the Canal. Most of the Canadian
advance was down a gentle slope of two miles over a green-
carpeted terrain that had been
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176 THE CANADIAN "EMMA GEES" untouched by war for

four long years. Rifle and machine gun pits here and there and
battery positions which had been hastily dug, but even with all that
haste sheltered over with boards, offered the only evidence of
attempted defence of this slope. A hot September sun blazed down
through the afternoon haze as the troops pushed forward slowly.
From the high ground to the south of Buissy, the 1st Division saw
evidence of great confusion on the east bank of the Canal. Guns,
lorries, transport could be seen moving eastward along the roads
and parties of enemy infantry retir ing toward Bourlon Wood.
Mounted officers could be seen, without success, trying to rally their
men. But in distinct contrast to this, parties of enemy machine
gunners, easily enough picked out for the same reasons as our own
were always easily recognizable by the enemy, could be seen moving
westward to the Canal bank apparently oblivious of the confusion of
retreat around them. First Divisional machine gun batteries had
common experiences too. Some remained in the positions they had
occupied the night before and employed overhead fire against the
canal banks. Duelling with low-flying enemy planes was one
diversion for some of the bat teries distributed in depth. No. 3
Company was in Division reserve. There was some confusion on the
4th Division front, one bat talion having advanced and then
withdrawn. The general advance before noon of the llth and 10th C.
I. B's met with little opposition and, though the advance down the
slopes was in plain sight of the enemy, he didn't have enough guns
to adequately take care of all the ideal targets so indifferently
offered. Mobile Batteries left their transport behind the ridge and
man-handled their guns and equipment down the slopes. One
Battery essayed the advance with pack mules and that did arouse
the venom of the German gunners. They con centrated their hitherto
scattered firing on this appetizing target and soon the landscape was
dotted with mules, standing beside shell holes, out of which could be
seen the arms of "skinners," holding fast to their mokes while they
sought to blend into the surroundings. The battery escaped
unscathed as after the first few salvos the enemy apparently
considered individual mules were too expensive targets. "L" Battery
of No. 3 Company had three mules killed when the transport was left
in the hollow near the Drocourt-Queant line. "E" Battery (Hall) of No.
2 Company suffered the heaviest casualties of the machine gunners'
advance, its effective strength being reduced to two officers, five
N.C.O's and only 17 other ranks when they came under one vicious
concentration of shell fire as they attempted to advance down the
slopes. Other batteries, including
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DROCOURT - QUEANT LINE 177 those of No. 1 Company,

sent crews forward singly or in pairs, though some were unable to
take up final positions until near dusk. When reconnoitering a
position for a sniping gun near the Canal bank just before dusk,
Major Bailey of No. 3 Company was severely wounded. Lieut. Perkins
went back and got a stretcher party and covering rifleman and the
wounded officer was taken out under heavy fire. No other day had
offered quite the picnic atmosphere to battle that September 3rd
brought and, generally speaking, machine gun casualties were light.
The formidable Canal du Nord had been reached and it brought a
sudden lull as darkness came down. Sulky batteries threw over
scattered salvos in the comparative quiet. Canadians certainly had a
wonderful two days of accomplishment behind them. They had
penetrated through five separate and distinct trench systems, with a
measure of ease compared to other adventures which had seemed
less formidable, and had thrust another 6,000 yards forward to the
ultimate goal. The prisoner total now reached over 10,000, of whom
262 were officers. Ninety-seven pieces of artillery had been captured
and 1,016 machine guns and 73 trench mortars had been counted in
the two days' operations. Eight enemy divisions had been thoroughly
mauled, one of them a Cavalry Division. Attacks against the Canal
were being planned by brigade staffs that night, but two more
bridges were blown up. It was realized that the enemy intended to
offer determined resistance with all the terrain in his favor and the
Corps Commander decided that further exploitation of this brilliant
success was impossible without thorough and elaborate preparation.
On the night of September 3rd-4th the 2nd and 3rd Divisions
relieved the tired but exultant 1st and 4th Divisions to conclude a
battle which at the onset had presented obstacles which were the
last word in field engineering and, in theory, seemed impregnable.
Though not won lightly, looking back to August 26th and to the
jumping-off line now so far to the rear, the whole Corps could not
escape a sense of bewilderment that the cost had been so low.
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CANAL DU NORD AND CAMBRIA CHAPTER IX. )\ LTHOUGH

the Canadian Corps conducted only minor operations •**• as
Divisions in the line and did holding tours awaiting further plans of
attack, Machine Gunners were kept busy night and day on harassing
fire programs. The line was thinly held, since the flooding of the
Sensee and of portions of the Canal du Nord by the enemy had
made any offensive action by him unlikely and the right flank was
the only possible point from which he could launch an attack.
Crossings were- well guarded, but the divisional defence was in
great depth. Preparations for the coming attack were under the
observation of the Germans from Oisy-le-Verger as well as from
Bourlon Wood to the right. On September llth the 57th British
Division attacked Moevres, and the guns of No. 2 Company, 2nd
Battalion C.M.G.C., joined the artillery support for the attack which,
however, was unsuccessful. All areas were heavily shelled at night
and night bombing by enemy planes rendered life on this sector
anything but peaceful. On September 15th, Gen. Sir Arthur Currie
received details of the forthcoming attack. The Canadians were to
again form the spear head thrust of operations in which the 3rd and
4th Armies were co-operating and were to cross the canal, capture
Bourlon Wood and the high ground northeast of it to protect the left
flank of the attack. The date of the operation was definitely fixed for
September 27th, but on September 22nd the task of the Corps was
enlarged to include the capture of the bridges over the Canal le
1'Escaut. The llth British Division came into the Corps command for
this operation. The Corps Commander had always been considered
the cautious, methodical type who demanded a perfection of detail
before commit ting his Canadians to attacks, but in the amazingly
daring conception of this attack a tremendous gamble was to be
taken that provided also a new twist to tactical planning. On the
Corps battle front of 6,400 yards the Canal du Nord was impassable
on the northern 3,800 yards. That left, therefore, the narrow neck of
2,600 yards through which the Canadian Corps com mander
proposed to launch two attacking Divisions, the 1st and the
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CANAL DU NORD AND CAMBRIA 179 4th, with the 3rd

following closely behind. When the attacking Divisions had gained
their first objective near Bourlon the 3rd was to thrust in on the right
of the 4th Division and attack in an easterly direction in liaison with
the 17th Corps. The llth British Division was to come up on the left
of the 1st Division, which was to fan out as soon as it crossed the
canal, and was to advance in a northeasterly direction toward Epinoy
and Oisy-le-Verger. Even though the element of chance is admitted
by Gen. Sir Arthur Currie, the measures taken to minimize it are also
explained as follows: "The assembly of the attacking troops in an
extremely congested area known by the enemy to be the only one
available was very dangerous, especially in view of the alertness of
the enemy. A con centrated bombardment of this area prior to zero,
particularly if gas were employed, was a dreaded possibility which
could seriously affect the whole operation and possibly cause its
total failure. "To meet such an eventuality, careful arrangements
were made by the counter-battery staff officer to bring to bear
neutralizing fire on hostile batteries at any moment during the
crucial period of preparation. These arrangements were to be put
into effect, in any case, at zero hour to neutralize the hostile
defensive barrage on the front of attack. "With the exception of the
2nd Canadian Division, which was now holding the entire front and
would be in Corps reserve at the time of the attack, every resource
of the Corps was to be crowded into that narrow space." The
Machine Gun Battalions prepared for the coming attack by
establishing well-filled dumps of ammunition as close to the line as
possible. Half a million rounds were placed in one, 100 yards north
of the crossing of the Baralle-Inchy road and the Queant-Marquoin
railway; another containing the same number was located at Inchy
and a third of 300,000 rounds on the Arras-Cambria road, 1,000
yards west of the canal. The one minor adjustment made was on the
front of the 5th C.I.B., where the 10th C.I.B. commander wished the
enemy driven back slightly, and in these operations the 5th were
engaged continu ously for five days and nights. "E" Battery, in
covering a daylight attack by the 25th Battalion, used two guns on
the wood southeast of Inchy and when taken 50 Germans were
found who had been killed by machine gun bullets. One of the guns
was knocked out but the crew escaped. Constant reconnaissance,
both aerial and by patrols, was kept up and all information gathered
tended to add to the difficulties which
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