La Bassée
Nord, France
Mentioned: 1918
Vimy / Artois Sector A canal town in the Béthune-Lens-Lille triangle. Named (as "Le Basée" in the diary) on April 22, 1918, as the direction of a distant artillery strafe: a news/rumor mention rather than a place Robertson visited.
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1918
- 22 April 1918Fine. Showery. St. Julien 1915 Pretty quiet all day. – Quite a strafe up towards Le Basée tonight. The “hun” that put the breeze up us last night was an FE2B with a green pilot, s …