Translations:CP 02913/48/en
- ↑ A play on words: Hahn had just benefited from a few days' rest (as had Commandant Cuny it seems), and the photograph shows him in the military drill position "at ease". If Reynaldo Hahn's post card is before 5 March 1915 (see note 1 above), it could relate to a period of rest which Commandant Cuny would have benefitted from between 18 and 27 February 1915, at the time of the battle of Vauquois. After the vain assault that he commanded on 17 February, during which he was wounded, the 31st Infantry Regiment were sent back to rest at Auzéville, a few kilometres away, before returning to the front line on 27 February and taking Vauquois on 1 March, a comfortable victory despite the German counter-attacks on 2 to 4 March. (See l'Historique succinct du 31e régiment d'infanterie. France. 1914-1918, Paris, Henri Charles-Lavauzelle, 1920, chapter "Vauquois", p. 10-12). The place where Hahn is stationed ("here") is not clear, and the fighting to take Vauquois having taken place from 17 February to 4 March, it could not, at this period, have been in that locality. On the other hand, if the post card dates from May 1915, "here" could mean Vauquois. [PK, FL]