I was several times sent out with working parties, and we were sometimes treated very roughly, especially when there was only an under officer in charge of us.
When prisoners are sent in working parties, the employers have to pay the German Government the same wages he usually pays a man, and the prisoners receive from the German Government 30 pfennings (about 3d.
The prisoners were sent out from Soltau in working parties to farmers, factories, and coal mines and salt mines.
We go out often as working parties or listening patrols.
Many strange things happen between the lines at night; working parties have no love for the place and hundreds get killed there.
The weather was good, and there were practically no working parties, so the men got plenty of time for rest.
The Companies were employed daily on working parties, chiefly under the Canadian Railway Construction Company, on work connected with the laying of a light railway from Poperinghe to the forward area.
In order to provide rations, stores and ammunition to the advancing troops a railway was laid by the Royal Engineers, ably assisted by working parties of the Egyptian Labour Corps of natives.
Working parties stopped by Wagner's picket fire from the ridge in front.
During this period Wagner, Gregg and the batteries from James island fired incessantly on the enemy's working parties.
During this night Wagner, Sumter and the James island batteries drove off the enemy's working parties.
We have only had three killed in the battalion so far, two men and one officer, and about half a dozen slightly wounded, almost all on working parties, on which trench mortar batteries do not go.
You begin the cure at 7-0 in the morning, if you are lucky, and continue it all day and all night on working parties.
But we had awful difficulty, as about 800 men, who had been in working parties working on the trenches, were coming down, and the whole way up the C.
Last night the whole Battalion went out on working parties; so I had command of a party.
The 2/5th Lancashire Fusiliers are the battalion in reserve to General Stockwell's brigade at present: we hang out here in the day-time, and go out on working parties in the trenches in the Salient at night.
Captain Andrews has just been into our dug-out to give us our orders as to working parties for to-night.
Yesterday evening Captain Andrews, Giffin, Dickinson and Allen all went out on working parties.
Owing to inexperience, delay in reliefs, entailing much fatigue to the men, the miscarrying of working parties, entailing the loss of valuable time, were in the early stages frequent.
On this line the reserve battalions were trained in digging and drilled as working parties, and considerably benefited from the instruction given there.
They had learnt valuable lessons regarding such questions as the influence of the nature of the soil on trench construction, the organisation of working parties, the disposal of mine spoil, &c.
With all these defences steadily growing, the duties of the Battalion on working parties, both when occupying the line and when in reserve billets, were onerous and unceasing.
Night after night, for fourteen nights in succession, did the Battalion continue these stiff working parties.
Working parties had to be found to repair this damage, as well as to carry the spoil out of the mines.
When a new ship was completed by the Royal Dockyards, the task of cleaning her and completing arrangements in detail was performed by working parties, which usually consisted of pensioners.
Men were employed in working parties to push off with long bamboos the corpses that were continually floating down from the Hooghli, lest they should foul the moorings.
The time at Rossignol Farm, like most other periods in reserve, was spent mainly in working parties in the forward area.
Working parties (of a minimum strength of a platoon) and training became once more the order of the day.
The routine was the same as last time--working parties, one platoon for special training, and the remainder general training.
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