22.8.1916 TRENCHES: Relieved by 5th Battalion and moved into Divisional Reserve at BAILLEUVAL.

War Diary [WO/95/2694]

22nd: Enemy very quite. An Officer patrol with a Lewis Gun dispersed a hostile bombing party near the RANSART-BELLACOURT road during the night.

A view of a series of dugouts and bivouacs positioned in a sunken road near Ransart in northern France. The bivouacs are assembled from sandbags and corrugated iron, some piles of rusty barbed wire nearby. Two British soldiers sit relaxing on the grass in the right foreground. Trees line the upper part of the sunken road  © IWM (Art.IWM ART 1617).

[Sergeant John Singer, RE at Ransart 1918]