Sanctuary Wood
West Flanders, Belgium
Mentioned: 1916, 1917
Ypres / Belgium Sector A wood in the Ypres Salient, still a preserved battlefield site today. Robertson walks through it in the summer of 1916 ("especially round Sanctuary Wood"... "up among the stiffs in Sanctuary Wood"), and recalls it a year later, July 3, 1917, as the site of a cramped "4' x 4'" dugout he once visited Major Critchley in.
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1916
- 28 June 1916… . Went up to Ry. Dugouts with the Maj. & stayed up to go over Harvey’s end. – A beautiful country, especially round Sanctuary Wood. Fritz attacked on 13th Front last night, but the Jacks were up on the parapet with bombs …
- 1 July 1916… arther than Valley Cottages tonight. Was afraid I’d have to carry Parsons home if I took him up among the stiffs in Sanctuary Wood. – The O.C. was up to’night – Think he’s worried for fear we haven’t enough to do.
1917
- 3 July 1917… r. – Col. Bell was down there from Corps. – & Major Critchley (10th – just a year ago I visited him in a 4' x 4' in SANCTUARY WOOD) – Maj. Gordon (O.C 4 A.S.P) – Maj. Webster – Durham & Duchesnay – Seven card stud & W.P. …