Half the Battalion-that is four companies-was sent to assist with the London Defences near Ashford, where the men learnt to construct what the Royal Engineers were pleased to call "Low Command Redoubts," and which were badly Sited on forward slopes.
"The Story of the "9th King's" in France"
Enos Herbert Glynne Roberts
"Folks said I was a fool when I come over here an' town-Sited," he jeered.
"Smoke Bellew"
Jack London
They were Sited and dug in the dark, not many weeks ago, to secure two hundred yards of French territory recovered from the Bosche by bomb and bayonet.
"The First Hundred Thousand"
Ian Hay