Fricourt

On the 30th the Battalion moved to a place by Fricourt, and pitched a camp which it left two days later for a bivouac area by Bronfay Farm, near

The Story of the "9th King's" in France Enos Herbert Glynne Roberts

So the garrison of Fricourt was not as hard put to it for supplies as some of the German prisoners with whom I spoke the day before.

Letters from France 1923

It was by the sight of two or three English soldiers clambering up one of these jagged fragments and peering into whatever lay beyond it, that we knew, as we came in sight of Fricourt, that the village had already been taken.

Letters from France 1923

German 5.9 shell were falling just on our side of Fricourt village, and in a line from there up the valley behind our attack.

Letters from France 1923

Yesterday three of us walked out from near the town of Albert to a hill-side within a few hundred yards of Fricourt.

Letters from France 1923

Fricourt may be the blur in the background south of them.

Letters from France 1923

Beyond the road the railway trucks were still standing as they have stood for two years in what once was Fricourt siding.

Letters from France 1923

Yesterday from the opposite slope of a gentle valley we watched Fricourt village taken.

Letters from France 1923

On the hills beyond can just be made out the woods of Fricourt behind the German line.

Letters from France 1923

We could see this heap of yellow-brown ruins sticking up beyond the left shoulder of the opposite hill much as Fricourt did on its right.

Letters from France 1923