That line offered numerous and well constructed shelters affording to our men relatively comfortable dwellings. Here and there, at places offering good field of fire or permitting to sweep main-traffic passages concrete machine pits (such as the one at the station) were built. In the hut of the railway guard an artillery observation-post was also constructed.
9.—Machine-gun shelter facing the Pervyse railway station.
10.—Observation-post at the Pervyse railway station.
From up the 26th of October 1914, date at which our troops were compelled to leave the Beverdijk, the Dixmude railway track outlined in front of Pervyse our first front line.
On the 30th of October meanwhile the foe was rushing for Ramscappelle he hurled detachments against the Pervyse station. That attack miserably failed under the violent rifle firing of the 1st Battalion of the 12th line Regiment which had been swiftly reinforced by few sections of the 2d Bat.
The assailants fled seeking refuge in the houses bordering the Schoore road opposite the railway station, where they were made prisoner in the course of the day. The rest managed to retire back to their former position but had to fight their way through the inundation in order to rally their line.
Pervyse.—The inundation facing the railway station (September 1916).
Oud-Stuyvekenskerke.—The Tower (November 1914).