Lieut. Geoffrey Winter, 1 Yorks. & Lancs. writes ‘We were going forward with the company to take a series of hill features. While we waited to go into action we saw one of our planes swoop on a hill and five enemy machine guns opened up on it. We were half-way to the hill when bombs began to fall around us. We sprinted forward for about three hundred yards. We saw bare headed Germans on top of the hill. The position was taken at bayonet point when we reached the top. There we found a mortally wounded German Sergeant-major and a soldier hopping about saying in English “I’m wounded, I’m wounded”. The remainder of the Germans had fled leaving their guns but taking four wounded men with them.
October 1943 Lieut.
Geffrey Winter report in the local Sheffield paper
