Assertion: battalion | /r/CapableOf | play a support role
Facets:
value: before being committed to the fighting
type: TEMPORAL
Source sentences:
text: A period of acclimatisation followed in a "nursery sector" around Petillon before, in mid-August the battalion played a support role in the initial fighting during the Battle of Mouquet Farm, before being committed to the fighting for the first time, launching an attack in early September.