Rising sharply against the skyline,
Shaggy Ridge is a knife-edged mountain range broken by three conical
outcrops, named The Pimple, Intermediate Snipers Pimple and Green
Snipers Pimple.
The most important of the ridges
was known as The Pimple and it was a rocky pinnacle sprouting
perpendicularly from the main mountain spur. Strong posts
and foxholes made it a formidable fortress within which two
other conical outcrops, a few hundred yards away.
