On this day 8th March 1917

8.3.1917: Letter “B” and “C” Companies attacked KITE COPSE and the BURG.

1/6th Battalion War Diary [WO/95/2694]


To be completed

139 Infantry Brigade: Headquarters War Diary [WO95/2692]

Kite CopseKite Copse 2014Arrow Copse

Although the area has returned to farm land the position of Arrow Copse has not changed over the last 100 years and evidence of the fighting can still be seen with the recovery of a British water bottle from the area of the BURG (below).waterbottle 2005

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