from 7th Brigade, the Royal Fusiliers & Northumberland Fusiliers going into the line 28 September 1915 Visit Hooge trenches. I have never seen anything worse. The whole place has been shelled so often that there were very few trenches standing & those there are, are very weak and indifferently built. 29 September 1915 At about 4.30pm the Germans blow up a mine opposite junction of B7 & B4 and captured a position of salient held by 1st Middlesex and a bombing party was detailed to turn them out, but the Germans held the portion gained all that night & the next morning the captured position was shelled for 15 minutes after which the infantry assaulted and re captured the trench. 1 October 1915 By later news it turns out