Talk:Attacks on High Wood

Weather
Not a bad narrative but the article could be improved by adding information about the weather, which had a great effect on the success of British operations. When there was fog, low cloud and rain RFC artillery observation aircraft couldn't fly and this is what undid many infantry atacks because the aim of the artillery couldn't been corrected.Keith-264 (talk) 12:02, 12 September 2009 (UTC)

Unsourced quotation
Sergeant Bill Hay of the 1/9th Battalion, Royal Scots, described the attack,

"That was a stupid action, because we had to make a frontal attack on bristling German guns and there was no shelter at all.... There were dead bodies all over the place where previous battalions and regiments had taken part in previous attacks. What a bashing we got. There were heaps of men everywhere–not one or two men, but heaps of men, all dead. Even before we went over, we knew this was death. We just couldn't take High Wood against machine-guns. It was ridiculous. There was no need for it. It was just absolute slaughter."


 * Parked until source obtained.Keith-264 (talk) 07:13, 16 September 2014 (UTC)

Foureaux
I put this detail back in because it's the term used in German writing.Keith-264 (talk) 09:43, 8 December 2014 (UTC)