I took over

And then we were told that the big push was on to take the Pimple or Vimy Ridge and it was to be the 9th of April when we went up to the line and the attack was to start at five o’clock Monday morning, April the 9th, Easter Monday morning. The attack came off as planned. Our company was not in the original attack on the Ridge. We were in the support lines. And after the attack was made we went up the line where the original troops had jumped off and we were there until Thursday morning. We were told that there was a part of the Ridge which had not been taken and we had to take that Ridge. And it was to be at five o’clock in the morning, Thursday. That would be, what, the 12th, wouldn’t it be? This attack came off as planned and I was second in command of the company at that time. Oh, by the way, I was transferred to “D” company. Captain Lee was the officer in command. He got wounded in the attack so I had to take over the company again. We got along very well and during the morning I had a note from the Colonel Dawson saying that we were too much to the right. As soon as it came dark that evening, I was to move the company over to the left a few hundred yards. During the day, I wanted to go back and reconnoitre while it was daylight just where I was to take the company and as I walked back over land to where I knew the new position would be, I know I counted 25 dead Germans lying on the ground between where we were at the moment and where we were to go that evening just after dark.