There the Germans installed an ambulance which received the wounded of the first battles with the Moroccans at Penchard.
Those who succumbed, among them several officers, were buried in the garden of the estate.
The Moroccans captured the ambulance when they re-took possession of Penchard.
The villa had been ransacked; the most highly appreciated trophy being the owner's peaceful academician's sword.
At the entrance to Penchard (19 km.), keep to the right as far as the town-hall square, where the motor can be left.
By the road which borders the town-hall on the right (about 150 yards from there and going past the church) we reach the edge of the Penchard woods where the view on the following page was taken. The tourist who enters these woods for a walk, or a rest, will find graves here and there, the last traces of the furious battles that were fought around.
Penchard was attacked the first time on September 5 by the Moroccan brigade, which came from the Chauconin-Neufmontiersline, over which the tourist has already travelled. The struggle was a desperate and particularly bloody one on the edge of the wood now before us, as also in the gardens of the neighbouring houses. The Moroccans had the advantage in this hand-to-hand fight and towards noon succeeded in taking the village, which they held for several hours under a violent bombardment.
THE PLAIN AT THE FOOT OF PENCHARD