A small party with a subaltern were withdrawn from the line to rehearse
a raid on the German line. A replica of the German trenches had been
made from aircraft photographs, and these, with our own trench and
intervening wire, were faithfully reproduced, even to shell-holes.
The rehearsal went off wonderfully. The wire was cut, the German
trenches were entered, and dummy bombs thrown down the dug-outs.
Back we came to our own trenches. "Everything was done excellently,
men," said the subaltern, "but I should like to be sure that every
difficulty has been allowed for. Can any man think of any point which
we have overlooked?"
"Yus," came the terse reply--"Jerry."--_Edward Nolan (15th London
Regt.), 41 Dalmeny Avenue, S.W.16._