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I don't quite understand the gridreferences on this page. The brigade is staying at Gorre (trench map 36a grid F.3. But on the 6th a mine explodes in A.9, more than 25km to the west?
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I read this that on the 1st November that the 25th Battery were at their new position at F.5.b.5.2. Enemy exploded a small mine about 100 yards west of Duck's Bill. We exploded a mine at A.9.d.4.7. Gaps in the German wire were noticed at A.9.b.2.1.
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ral104
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Erik, I'm assuming that although the 25th Battery were in position in grid F5, the brigade must have had other batteries stationed further west. Otherwise I can't see how they could have fired on the gaps in the german wire they mention. This is often the case with artillery brigades - the various batteries will sometimes be quite far removed from each other.
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cyngast
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Keep in mind that the artillery battery didn't explode the mine. "We" as it's used here means the British, not this individual unit. It can be confusing sometimes in a diary that includes a lot of general activity along the front to sort out what pertains to just the unit of the diary.
Also, I think that when the diary says they are in Gorre, it means their headquarters were there. The units, as Rob says, were scattered around the area.
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I think A.9 is on another map: 36c NW 1:20,000 Le Plantin (Festubert) - Hill 70 1917/12. A.9 being near Givenchy-lès-la-Bassée which is about 5km to the east of Gorre.
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