Bombs and Tear Gas, Mopping Up at Contalmaison, Somme, by Pte GM Sturgess | 8-10 July 1916 | Episode 130
Published on 8 July 1916
During the early days of the Somme offensive some of the heaviest fighting took place in and around the village of Contalmaison. Private Sturgess, who was in a battalion of the Royal Fusiliers, went into action immediately after the first line of attack and describes in a very spirited manner the adventures which befell those whose duty it was to "clean up" captured ground of Germans lurking in dug-outs and machine-gun nests still operating in No Man's Land.