The Cost of a Few Craters - a Frenchman at La Boisselle, by Paul Maze | 1 - 12 July 1916 | Episode 125
Published on 1 July 1916
The author, who in Episode 26 gave a most thrilling account of his experiences during the retreat from Mons, here recounts the adventures which befell him during the first days of the Battle of the Somme, when he watched the taking of a few craters at great cost of life.
M. Maze was a Frenchman attached to the staff of General Sir Hubert Gough, and acted as his observer in forward areas and, with the greatest intrepidity, visited the front line on the eve of an attack, made sketches, and brought back to his general a first-hand account of the progress of an attack.