From the enemy's side high explosives were dropping over Miraumont, and Irles was being heavily Bombarded.
"From Bapaume to Passchendaele, 1917"
Philip Gibbs
British cavalry were first into Monchy, riding through a storm of shrapnel, and heavily Bombarded in the village so that many of their horses were killed and many men wounded.
"From Bapaume to Passchendaele, 1917"
Philip Gibbs
It is indeed an astounding chapter of courage all this attack on Langemarck by men who before the attack had been Bombarded with gas and other shells, and who then floundered in deep bogs, where they got stuck up to the waist, but worked in small parties up and on, fighting all the way against an enemy who put up a gallant and stubborn resistance and sold every hundred yards of ground as dearly as he could.
"From Bapaume to Passchendaele, 1917"
Philip Gibbs