Their rush carried them as far as the cemetery, and here, met by a terrific fire from the machine-guns, they tried to keep the position, but German reinforcements having come up, they were forced to abandon the plateau, evacuate the village, and return to their trenches at Barcy. Lieutenant-Colonel Dubujadoux, commanding the regiment, was killed; three-fourths of the officers and half the effective force fell in the course of this heroic charge. In front of the memorial the twisted metal framework of a burnt shed is to be seen. According to certain accounts, the Germans, before evacuating the position on September 9, used this shed to burn the bodies of those of their soldiers who fell in the battles of Étrépilly. Some of the inhabitants say that to these were added the badly wounded, whose hurts were such that they could not be removed. [Illustration: BURNT SHED] We believe, as a matter of fact, that a large pyre of corpses was set alight here by the Germans, who generally burn their dead when they cannot carry them away. But the hangar was destroyed by the French artillery which fired repeatedly on that side of the plateau at the battery of 77's installed there, at the cemetery, and at the German trenches. In the cemetery lie the heroes who were killed in attempting to regain it. _From the cemetery the road descends towards Étrépilly._ _Turn to the right at the foot of the slope into Étrépilly and on leaving the village take the road on the left; cross the river, turn again to the left and follow the track which climbs the plateau. After a few hundred yards the right slope disappears._ It was at this point that panorama D was taken, showing, from the German side, the same battlefield seen from the French side in panorama B (_pp. 90-91_). [Illustration: Heights of Penchard Montheon Barcy Heights of Cuisy Factory at Marcilly Road from Marcilly to Étrépilly Farm of Nongloire Farm of Champfleury D. +PANORAMA OF THE BATTLEFIELD OF THE FRENCH RIGHT+] The road on which the tourist now stands goes on to the heights of Varreddes. Bordered with trenches and machine guns, it constituted the principal line of the German defence south of Étrépilly, the advance lines resting thus: the first on Penchard--Monthyon--Heights of Cuisy; the second on Chambry--Barcy--Marcilly. In this theatre of operations fought, south of the Marcilly-en-Étrépilly road, the 55th (Reserve) Division, the 45th Division and the Moroccan Brigade; at Marcilly and on the plateau north of Étrépilly, which is outlined on the extreme right of the panorama and crowned by the Champfleury Farm the 56th (Reserve) Division. [Illustration: A CORNER OF THE BATTLEFIELD]