Article about: A pick up from the bay, trench art case with RE badge and Welsh dragon etching for 38th Welsh div, 5(V)th Corps, 3rd Army. The Battles of the Hindenburg Line 1918 The Battles of the Hindenbu
Phase: the Battle of Havrincourt, 12 September 1918
Third Army (Byng)
IV Corps (Harper)
37th Division
New Zealand Division. V Corps (Shute)
17th (Northern) Division 38th (Welsh) Division.
VI Corps (Haldane)
Guards Division
2nd Division
62nd (2nd West Riding) Division.
I assume this is a 7.7cm case, HL being the brass supplier Haniel Luege Dusseldorf and the 6 and the 27 being inspectors marks, the St being for a strengthened case. I vaguely remember this being already answered but perhaps not as its not and maybe it was another case.
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