ABSTRACT
'A stench that withered grass, wrote Major Hill Blalock in a 'Thunderbolt' report, 'fouling the air for hundreds of yards around ... Filthy holes, emanating wretched human misery and rank with the stench of death, thrown open to the cleansing air.' And he added, 'The men of this division now realize the meaning of Churchill's words: "We are now entering the dire sink of iniquity".' 1
