IN AILLY WOOD SECTOR
German Defence Works in quarry by roadside, 3 km. from St. Mihiel.
On the 10th, after an artillery preparation lasting all day, a fresh attack was launched at seven o’clock in the evening. The whole of the wood was quickly occupied and immediately consolidated, in view of counter-attack. Five machine-guns, five trench-mortars, thousands of grenades and large quantities of equipment and stores, were left in the hands of the French.
From that time scarcely a month passed without some communiqué stating that the Germans had bombarded or counter-attacked Ailly Wood.
St. Mihiel is entered via the Faubourg de Nancy, in which are the burnt ruins of the Sénarmont Barracks.
Follow the Rue Porte-à-Nancy, then the Rue Grande, as far as the Rue de l’Eglise, into which turn to the left to reach the Church of St. Etienne.
St. Mihiel during the War
On September 24, 1914, St. Mihiel was taken by the Germans, who held it until September 12, 1918.