We pushed them back

They moved us down to the Amiens front. Well I remember that we left out, we started to march every night as soon as it got dark and we marched until it started to get daylight. And then we were put under cover for the day hours so that the enemy wouldn’t know that we were on the move. And when we landed down there, we had one day’s rest. Like, we landed in the morning, and we had one day’s rest and the next morning at four o’clock we went over the hill. And that’s when we pushed them back. The first day we went to, I think it was probably seven miles, I think we went that day. And we fought down there for three days and then we held them for a while after that. There wasn’t too many casualties on the enemy side, the first day, but the second morning when we started to move forward again we were just walking over dead all the time, both enemy and our own. It had been a fierce battle in the wave that was ahead of us. And by the time we went through we didn’t have too much fighting to do until we struck the, I don’t know, you wouldn’t call them chalk pits, but they were, it was like a mining area, more or less, where there was . . . it might have been from, mostly from artillery fire, but the ground was all little hollows and hills. We took that over and held it there then and when we went on to the third day, we were fighting in that and that’s when my, my section commander got hit and that’s when I had to take over the section unit. We held that position down there for a few days. I wouldn’t like to say how many days, but we held it for a few days before they decided to move us back up North for this next big push. Rushed us up by train up to Dury, for the Dury-Canal du Nord battle.