Lens
Pas-de-Calais, France
Mentioned: 1916, 1917
Vimy / Artois Sector A German-held mining town Robertson's own sector faced for most of 1917: mentioned repeatedly as fighting continues just north of it ("Still pounding away around LENS"), part of the ground the Canadian Corps was pushing toward ahead of the Battle of Hill 70 that August.
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1917
- 13 April 1917… e. Met Bethune over by Chateau La Haie – He had it from H.A. group H.Q. that the Boshe was backing out of LENS. Gen. Currie also spinning that on us tonight. – Got orders about midnight to move the Po …
- 9 May 1917… a stiff fight to hang on to the hinge of his retirement & if that goes he will too, for a good bit N. of LENS. Quite a strafe on tonight, around SOUCHEZ it seems. -55 (-157)
- 26 June 1917Cool. No mail. A little activity around LENS yesterday. – Went out along the ridge again with Stoneham & Tenau. – Remarkably clear – C …
- 1 July 1917… I need that other pip badly together with the dollar a day that goes with it. Still pounding away around LENS. – Quite a strafe early this morning. –