Whose Business is to Die
“‘Good evening, Mr Truscott.’As the sun set two hundred men from the 106th had paraded without packs or muskets. They had drawn tools instead and spent the last two hours waiting to be led forward, and then two more tramping the five miles from the camp, sited because it was the only suitable place anywhere near the fortress. Some also carried empty sacks and another party were rolling gabions, wicker baskets taller than a man and twice as broad. Both bags and baskets were to be filled with eart...h to help build the first of the Allied batteries.‘Good evening, sir.’ Truscott saluted, and then plucked out his watch and stared until he made out the time. ‘We have five minutes before we should move.’It was the night of 8th May, and the Allies planned to begin work on the trenches and gun positions around Badajoz. Their task was to start Number One Battery, facing the San Cristoval fort, but on the other side of the Guadiana; other working parties would cut trenches to threaten the Pardeleras and Picurina outworks.MoreLess
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