A Brief History of the Battle of Pine Coffin

We had so far no contact with james hill and his third brigade on the ridge. Only one person out of over 70 soldiers who flew in on that hazardous task was injured as he direct result of those crash landings at beneville. One sergeant major was brought in by a french girl who fitted him up in her brother's clothes, gave him identity papers and entrees him a bicycle to bluff away through german lines. The reports of the large number of missing men in the first 24 hours led to an erroneous impression that our casualties had been far heavier than they were. By the following day, a good proportion of those missing men had come in.