Amazing stories
Achiet-le-Grand during WW1
90 years later
On 24th May 2009, a plaque dedicated to W.K.WEBBER was replaced
Betty's photo on the Daily Echo
R.E.Mortimer Wheeler (royal field artillery)
"Two German guns had been left , ownerless and tempting after heavy fighting two days earlier (22nd August 1918), Wheeler, a sergeant and a team of volunteers set of to get them. Instructions were left to plaster the mound with smoke shell until Wheeler and his team returned. They moved on reaching the guns without mishap. They loaded the guns with great difficulty and managed to get back to their battery with no casualties. Throughout the night both German guns fired German gas shells back to their rightful owners"
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