EXTRACT from the Report of Rifle (Fusilier) Regiment No. 108 on the
fighting in Dinant during the night of the 21st-22nd August 1914.
When the rear of the 2nd Battalion had reached the first houses in
Dinant, a signal shot suddenly rang out. The next moment there was a
rattle of musketry on all sides. There was firing from all the houses;
from all the slopes, which are honeycombed by cellars and vaults, there
came flashes. All the houses were firmly barricaded. An attempt was
made to penetrate into the houses. If rifle-butts and hatchets were
not adequate, there were pioneers at hand to throw in hand-grenades.
Machine-guns had been fixed up in a corner house.