I Went Too Far Trench Bombing at Ovillers, Somme, by Charles Edmonds | 15 July 1916 | Episode 134

In the action which the author so vividly describes, the objective of the battalion (the Royal Warwickshire) was a cross-road behind Ovillers. The confusion of the battlefield made it as easy to overshoot the mark as to underestimate the distance which had been covered. As a platoon officer Mr. Edmonds went too far, but fully justified his exuberance after a spirited bombing duel. On July 16 the last strongholds at Ovillers fell to the British.

The author of this chapter, who writes under the pen-name of Charles Edmonds, is Mr. C. E. Carrington. He enlisted at the age of seventeen. After the war he was for a time an assistant master at Haileybury and then joined the Cambridge University Press.