Angres
Pas-de-Calais, France
Mentioned: 1917
Vimy / Artois Sector A village next to Liévin and Lens. Visited twice in quick succession in September 1917: surveying wire on Cemetery hill on the 24th, and passed through again the next day on a tour that also took in Maroc and Colonne.
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1917
- 24 September 1917… tit Vimy. – Was going to visit artillery dugouts but they were receiving attention from the Huns. – Next to Angres. – Strolled over Cemetery hill to get a line on the wire for G branch. – Tea'd at Gouy on …
- 25 September 1917… and revisited the Double Crossing and vicinity. – Some change in the last six mos. – Down thro' Calonne to Angres. – Called at Clint's battery but didn't see him. – Left the side-car under the Ry. Bridge …