Zweibund — the Dual Alliance — Germany and Austria-Hungary united, were the core of the Central Powers, and here join hands. The bars of Germany's flag border the top left, and those of the Habsburg Austrian Empire and ruling house the bottom right.
Schulter an SchulterUntrennbar vereintin Freud und in Leid!'Shoulder to shoulderInseparably united in joy and in sorrow!
"February 18th. [1916]—. . . A party from the Fleet went in with us as guests. The weather was dirty all the time of their stay. The sailors entered boisterously into the life and activity of the trenches, bar the fatigues, but they went away saying they would much rather have the North Sea in spite of its submerged mines and submarines.February 19th.—Bright moonlight: five bombs were dropped in the back area ; there is much dispute if signal lights were thrown out by the bombers or thrown up for them.February 20th.—One of our Air-observers was brought down behind the support line : fired on and shelled, he escaped unhurt."
Entries from the writings — diaries, letters, and memoirs — of Captain J.C. Dunn, Medical Officer of the Second Battalion His Majesty's Twenty-Third Foot, The Royal Welch Fusiliers and dozens of his comrades. The Fusiliers were in the line at Cambrin, France, west of La Bassée. Around February 13, the troops had 'returned to Cambrin Left in a downpour,' to find 'the Germans had narrowed Nomansland by connecting-up their saps,' their trenches running toward the British line.
The War the Infantry Knew 1914-1919 by Captain J.C. Dunn, page 181, copyright © The Royal Welch Fusiliers 1987, publisher: Abacus (Little, Brown and Company, UK), publication date: 1994
1916-02-19, 1916, February, Dunn, grenade, bomb, air observer, observer, observation balloon
