Dodging Death at Pozières: A French Observer's Hair-breadth Escapes, by M. Paul Maze, DCM, MM, CdeG | 23 July 1916 | Episode 137
Published on 23 July 1916
At any crisis M. Paul Maze (whose earlier contributions to this work appear in Episode 26 and Episode 125) might be found in the thick of the battle taking notes for Sir Hubert Gough (who eventually became Commander of the Fifth Army), to whom he acted not only as interpreter but as a confidential observer of front line fighting.
Our listeners have met him during the retreat from Mons and on the opening day, July 1, of the Battle of the Somme. Here towards the end of this fateful month he is in the midst of the bloody fighting which took place round the village of Pozières on July 23.
A distinguished author and artist, M. Maze later made his home in England.