Book Page 120
98 Field Regiment Royal Artillery War Diary
21 Jan 44 – 1830
Hectic hour in which 392 and 471 Batteries each received urgent SOS’s and 391 Battery alternated from one to the other in support. Meanwhile Division asked for six Stonks [artillery bombardments] which had to be refused. Ammunition running low.
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T. B. Davis "The Surrey & Sussex Yeomanry (98 Field Regiment)" 1980
"Enemy reaction had now reached a peak and six targets were engaged by the whole Divisional Artillery before 5.15a.m. Two hours later the guns were firing a barrage in support of a 15 Brigade attack eastwards on Tremensuoli. Resistance was fierce and by evening the leading troops were still only half way to the village; two days later after a series of savage counter attacks they were not even as close as that. The Germans fought with great tenacity, and there is no doubt that their counter-attacks, supported as they were by armour, would have had a far greater success but for the crippling fire which the Regiment was able to bring down upon them. The guns were seldom silent and in these two days alone they fired over 11,000 rounds."
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