Wounded on top of the wall

 A soldier from ‘B’ Company 1 York & Lancs. described what happened.

20 Jan 44 

Forward slopes of the hill in front of the Cemetery. Wall at the bottom. (Photo John Strafford)

At this time a Gerry officer and two wounded men were captured, and we jumped down a high wall onto the road and into the now empty Aid Post leaving the wounded on top of the wall. Two of us searched right round the Aid Post and found nothing but dead, on stretchers. We searched upstairs and found it clear. Now we waited instructions from Company HQ but were rudely interrupted by the whirring of a stick grenade which must have come through the window. It must have been a long fuse because seven or eight of us got outside in a hurry and the only casualty was the Gerry officer with a hole in his backside the size of a teacup. The rest of B Coy arrived