The Book of Condolence, or the Book of Remembrance

After last week's pod, we got an email from a regular friend of the show, roger pierce. He said his ears prick up whenever allan james mentioned the forty third wessex. So when they mentioned them this morning, i just had to have a look at my dad’s writings and see if he mentioned that attack. This is what he wrote: ‘On the fourteenth of august, we made a battalion attack on hill two o one, which was a large area with hamlet and farm buildings,. with woods and hedgerows all over it. A difficult attack. We quickly learnt that you receive the shell before you hear the gun go