72nd Seaforth Highlanders of Canada - Electric Scotland

GERMANY S INNINGS.
it rested one day and was joined by its transport section;
thence to Clairy-Saulchoix, another four miles, where more
detailed instructions were received and a definite plan of
attack evolved, and discussed with the Company Com
manders, their officers and N. C. O. s, and where it rested
the following day. On the night of August 6 the 72nd
marched to Boves Wood, a distance of about twelve miles.
This point was reached in the early morning of August 7
and only the initiated can tell how much it comprehends.
It means that the end had come <of weeks of intense work,
calculation, issuing of orders, arranging for artillery and
the thousand and one things that accompany the anxiety
on the part of those responsible that nothing shall be for
gotten. Now it was known that the artillery support was
to be the greatest ever known; that all units went into the
field up to strength and more, with ample reinforcements
on the spot to make good casualties.
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