In addition to the latter party, at my disposal—Boening, and Assistant-Surgeon Wiser and six stretcher bearers.
2. Dress and equipment.—Attack order without greatcoat or cap, belts to be worn without pouches, gas masks to be slung and tucked into tunic.
The Stradtmann, Dumas, and Böhlefeld patrols will each be equipped, half with rifles and half with pistols and wire-cutters.
The supports will carry rifles, five men will carry pistols, each man will carry two grenades.
As a distinguishing mark each man will wear a triangle of white linen sewn on the breast and back.
Minutes. O′ The time of starting will be communicated, in good time, on the day of the raid.
3. Time table.—The artillery will open fire with gas shells on the enemy’s trenches on both sides of the point of entry and on the objectives opposite the southwest corner of La Boisselle, where the feint attack is to take place.
For a quarter of an hour, all the enemy’s trenches likely to prove of importance to the raiding party will be brought under fire. At the same time, the close-range weapons of the 1st Reserve Company, 13th Pioneer Battalion, with the two medium and the light Minenwerfer of the 228th Minenwerfer Company, will fire with maximum rapidity on the enemy’s trenches opposite the southwest corner of La Boisselle.
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The one heavy and two medium Minenwerfer of the 228th Minenwerfer Company will open fire with the object of cutting the wire in front of the point of entry.