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1.THE BATTLE OF FESTUBERT.
STIRRING DESCRIPTION OF THREE DAYS FIGHTING.
THE BRITISH ADVANCE.
NAMES OF OFFICERS AND MEN WHO DID HEROIC DEEDS.
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BRAYË STRETCHZE DÉAKKEN Lanco-Corporala Walsh and Condy
The experience of the Royal Welsh Furiliore shows the tremendous difficulties both atrotolor-bearers rescued many man which had to be overconic by the attacking under fire. Welsh, who is a man of groat troops in atorming and holding the Gor-strength began picking up wounded a mam positions.
Ho orried I give it in detail, in 500m the attack began. order to convey nome idea of the method seven hiraself, through the heavy fire of assault
including Major Dixon, eccond in com This battalion, compooed principally of and unable to carry stretchers, but ko
mand.
Condry was wounded in the arm, North Wales miners and Birmingham contánited to bandage men, suffered severely in previous engage menta. It came out of the battle of Ypres the weakened battalion hold the position For two days after its sucessful attack with thirty-five mon and no officers, having performed extraordinary acts of gallantry. assigned it until relieved by fresh insos British Headquarters
As part of the force assigned, for the and allowed to go back into billets. in the Field.
Bomb-throwers played an important parā Festubort attack, it wont into
the in the winning of this victory. The Ger advanced line on the night of May 13th, mans showed a marked distaste for suck gallantry lica behind the bald official re
Another stirring story of heroism and ordered to charge the enemy's trenches officer of the 57th Westphalians, how
May 28th.
brought up to full strength and was close-range bombardments. One Gormmaus ports which announced the beginning of ceased.
next morning as soon as the bombardment lodged in comfortable captivity, admitted the recent British advance in the region The bombardment lifted at exactly quite frankly that the war lost all interest of Festubert, north of La Bassée.
him when he was suddenly confronted The nation knows already, that our watches. It was a dull, dark morn
the time arranged by the officers' with a hand grenade.
A bombing party presents a weird sight troops of the 1st Army hovo driven a firm wedge into the strongly fortified position in front of the Fusiliers was
ing,
the "no man's load"
as it plunges across the broken entanglo- of the enemy in that region, and that they don by a
hid- mass of lyddito fumes, the carry five or six grenades each, and thess
monts into a German trench. continue to drive it deeper with each aus enemy's trench, 150 yards distant, being are thrown with export aim, in accord The men cessive attack. Many trenches have been invisible. gained, and nearly a thousand prisoners howitzers foll thickly behind the waiting Frequently one of the detachment will
Sholls from the German anoo with a carefully, rehearsed plan. takop, in addition to a quantity of battalion, for the enemy realised what back through a galling fire in order to METEOROLOGICAL machine guns, and no counter-attack has was coming, and they made a desperate replenish the stock of boobs.
succeded in restoring to the enemy any effort to weaken the inevitable lafantry the Sunday morning asanult at Festubert. material advantage gained by us.
During I am permitted to give details of the part played in the first three days along the parapet of the Welsh Fusiliers British positions. One of the finest bob Up went the six-foot scaling ladders from the captured trenches back to the there were frequently trips of this nature operations around Festubert by many trench, and at the word of command enger exploits was performed by Company famous British regiments. It is impos- men wore scrambling at each other's heels Sergeant Major Barter, of the Fusiliers, sible of ecurse, to describe the operations behind each ladder-pouring over the and seven men, who, unaided, bombed as fully or as consecutively as may be parapet and taking the eight-foot drop one German trench for 500 yards, captur- done when this phase of the campaign is in to the zone of fire as coolly as athletes ing 102 prisoners and the officer mentioned concluded, but it is sufficient to show that competing in field sports. 2. the splendid fonts which marked the last
The first man was scarcely ready to minings which Bad con prepared as above, and discovering and cutting deven battle of Ypres have had their counterpart jump before a terrifle rifle and machine intervals of twenty yards. in this successial assault against one of gun fusillade was launched at our posi the best corps of the Prussian army.
tion from the enemy's trenches, reinforced
PERSONAL HEROISM. by a rain of trench inortar shells South Staffords (an officer of the Special Second Lieutenant Hassell, of the great was the clatter of musketry that it Reserve) led portentarily obscured the artillery, bom twenty-five men which worked through a. gronade detachment of We forgot the shells, one one difficult trench after another. bardmont, officer told me, for it seemed as though showed great personal bravers, and wher all the Mausers in the world were directed the bombs were exhausted went back for against us."
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THE ADVANCE AND GAINE.
My narrativa deals with the night of Saturday, May 15th, when the British offensive began with a heavy bombard mont and an infantry attack, and the two following days, by the end of which period the initial advanco had been made good and our now line consolidated.
The attack was made from two points between Richebourg: l'Avous and Give day, Festa bort being the centre of the principal fighting. The northern attack was held up at first by the stubborn re sistance of the enemy in very strong post tion, but our southern advance, which
proceeded rapidly, and many linca of
shock.
UNHESITATING ADVANCE
It
a fresh supply. The success of the attack, which cleared nearly a mile of Ite, war Men began dropping immediately, but due largely to his efforts. Nearly 200 the line navor faltered. Colonel Gabbett had hardly set foot on and as many more Germans bolted pro- Lieutenant Prisoners were taken with machine-guns, the open ground before he fell dead, with
cipitately. Private Hardy, of later Major Dixon, the second in com- first German trench. Ho fainted, bn og Ave bullet wounds in his body. A second wounded in the left arm as he reached the the Queen's, one of the bomb throwers, was began early on Bunday morning, the 16th. mand, was shot through both legs within reviving bound his arm in a sling unde. a few yards of his own trench. Captain from a portion of his shirt, and resumed trouches yielded to bayonet and bomb Rockwell pressed on across the riddled the attack, although very conspicuous attacks, covered by a very strong artillery/field with his thinning first line, with the mark, with his throat and chest bare.
fire.
At some points our infantry was forced back temporarily from positions which had been cleared of the enemy, but they were invariably reoccupied by strong
reinforcements.
second line already close behind.
casualties.
Had it been & straightforward dash into
Hardy was left-handed, but he continued the German trench the Welsh Fusiliers to throw "stick" bombs until he was shot would have gained the goal with lower dead.
But instead of a clear run bomb attacks with a rush which gained The Queen's followed up the determined across country they had to negotiate a broad, deep ditch less than a hundred feet them the German trenches allotted as faci from their breastworks by following nar-portion of the assault, with very little cow bridges which had been placed by the first line went steadily across the broken difficulty. Four companies forming the They sappera.
In the early morning light, with the air still obscured by alouds of round, over three ditches, as far as the insuficiently cul entanglements in front smoke, the bridges could not easily be of the German parapets.
"A" and "B" companies were almosť Nevertheless, the first line got up to the wiped out, and the surviving un, delay- minutes, and poured through the tw down in the open under the heavy breaches made by our guns. The enemy's
Throughout Sunday and Monday the bombing of isolated detachments of Germans continued. A number of counter attacks failed to give the enemy the slightest advantage at any point. succeeded in holding to some isolated positions between the points of attack, but as the two bulges in our lino extended, they were slowly but steadily squeezed until this pressure had boon first German trench in less than threded momentarily by the obstruction, lay almost entirely removed. »
BCOREA TO WIPE OFF.
communication
com-
Most of the men of the Queen'e are Lon-
BRELLED FOR THREE DAYS..
rifle fire ceased instantly. A few showed howitzer fro. Our guns shelled the Ger The British troops attacked with great fight, and tried to meet bayonet with man position for another fifteen minutes, bitterness, as well as determination. Not bayonet, but they were speedily over- German
after which the battalion pressed to the only had the death of the gassed victimas powered; the majority scurried like
communication trench, 1,000 around Ypres to be settled for, but there frightened rats into a long communion-yards from the British line, which was e local scores to wipe out as well. The tion trench; same threw away their rifles battalion commander, was wounded dur its objective. (Major Bottomley, tho regiments of the 7th (Munster) corps, and surrendered immediately. which hold the German line in this sector The Fusiliers had orders to pushing the advance, and died the next day). aremotorious for their brutality and inhu-through 900 yards of
Thero was practically no opposition, manity. The 11th, which formerly occupied trench and gain an orchard about 000 and the men swarmed through the inter- the front tronches, is known to have yards beyond. They had lost heavily in vening trenches-in one instauce crossing killed wounded prisoners,
oflcers and men in the time it took to a rough bridge laid by the enemy. Facing us when the attack began on reach the enemy's first line, and German They lay all day in the captured position, Sunday night, May 10th, were the 57th howitzers were now concentrating on heavily shelled on both Banks. The con 58th, and 54th Infantry regiments, and them with furious salvoes of high explosive munication trench was hardly more than the 24th Pioneers,
a hurdle a shallow affair shell. Of the machine gune only one now
without The ground traversed by the attacking remained-in charge of Sergeant Butler, parapets, just high enough to afford a battalions presented many difficulties who had been wounded at the beginning mark for the enemy's gains. At six o'clock Viewed from the British trenches of his journey, but nevertheless stuck to the evening they fell back to the first appeared to be a stretch of bare, almost his gun, and brought it into action when German line, which had been reversed, STATE OF WEATHER, & blue sky, e detached fint fields, interspered here and there with the work of clearing out the enemy trench and made the new British line. olcad, d drasling rain, f for, eg gloomy, h hall,'' rlighting, o overcast, p paazing showers, spa, orchards
ruined cottages, farm buildings, and began. They were being enfiladed by Ger. sain, a mow, i thunder, ♥ visibility, w dóm (wak).
In reality it was network man machine guns, Still they pushed on. doners. There were many individual acts
Ditches of pitfalls for the unwary, Bar in inches, & tantha nad handrothelled with mud and slimy water were trench, stumbling over corpses and the a wounded man back to the British posi
Captain Rockwell led his mon along the of bravery, Private Williamson carried hidden among coarse grass which grew debris scattered about by British shells. tion under an exceptionally severe rifle. to a height of nearly three feet; in som On the way they mot about thirty-five men and machine-gun fire. The adjutat of places the ground was hardly more than of the Scots Guards, who joined them. A the South Staffords told him to get under a morass. Few battalions were across the hundred yards further along they came over and rest awhile. "No, sir,” replied intervening ground between their trenches under the fire of our own guns, for the Williamson, my place is in the firing and the enemy, and every second's delay advance had been made much more rapid. line, and I must get back." added to the heavy death roll.
ly than had been thought possible. For Not company of the line alto save an hour they lay safely under oover while The Queen's were excessively shelled when trying to overcome unexpected the British artillery systematically bom during the three days they remained in obstacles, and although some if the unita barded the dug-outs and seecad-line the trenches, but they never lost touch were literally cut to pieces by a sweeping trenches, in which the enemy still strove with brigade headquarters. Ten minutes machine-gun fire, every man pressed to
after the battalion stormed the German to maintain a footing. wards the goal as long as he was able to
1,200 YARDS GAINED.
position a telephone line was running walk.
back from the captured communication The beginning of the first Festubert Then the shelling ceased. The air trench to the report centre. Sergeant It in Kadvance was not marked by any dramatic cleared, and Captain Rockwell could see Cox, with Corporal Morris and Privates
Had you been in the British the orchard, which was his objective, Cleaver and Aldrich, all episodes,
signallers. front trenches late on the night of Satur- Just then a German officer and two men repeatedly went out under fire to repair 1 8
day, May 15th, and, again at a quarter- rushed down the cammunication trench the wire immediately it had been cut by past three next morning, you would have | dragging a machine gun, The Fusiliers shells. seon lines of infantry drawn up, silent and Guardamen fired volleys, killing all
Some of the assaulting battalions were and impassive, and a number of officers threo instantly. They pressed gradually never driven back from their new posi gazing at the minute hand of their wat along the communication treach, bombing tions-among them the 8th Royal Scots. ches. Exactly at the moment ordered as they went, until they got to the orchard They were on the extreme left of the they climbed over their parapets and went at the end, a distance of 1,200 yards from attacking line, but although shelled liko out to kill or be killed, without any fuss where they started. Here they found blazes," they held on. Lieut-Colonel A. 1 66 3
or heroics,
half-a-dozen ruined cottages held by Ger- Brook, the commanding officer, was killed 180 X
Part of the preliminary work of this man machine-gun parties.
by the back blast of a shell while sitting. 13 m. 8 4675m 2 16 32
attack concerned men who are seldom
Although there were only four bomb with Major Gemmell, the second in com- 11 26 3 7
heard of in the tumult of battle the throwers loft, they cleared the first cottage mand, in the German trench, Royal Engineers. On them fell the task beyond the trench, which they put in a Two companies of the Warwicks went of making everything ready for the men state of defence. It was impossible, how through the Welsh Fusiliers, and held a who are to advance. They had to provide ever, to storm the second cottage thirty trench choked with German dead and bridging, clear obstacles away from the yards distant on the other side of a road. wounded. This battalion endured ground to be traversed, build sealing It was apparently packed with infantry, seventy-two hours bombardment with fadders, dig trenches under fire, and do who sniped steadily, and it also afforded high explosive shells. a thousand and one necessary things at cover for a number of machine guns. The All the Warwicks are Birmingham mer the risk of their lives.
Fusiliers-made-several brava attempts to The first company to reach the German For this particular attack the field com-dislodge them, and were then forced to tranch was commanded by Sergeant pany had several nights' dangerous duty remain on the defensive. They established Heath, and many privates and non-com- between the German and British lines. a post in the first cottage, and the other missioned officers distinguished themselves Intervening disches were spanned with men dug a trench across the square end under fire, Sergeant Clement and Fri- plank fectways and marked so that charg of the long communication trench to stop vate Twynan kept carrying wounded ing battalions might see them through the the disastrous enfilading fire. Hare Cap down the communication trench. Private smoke the bombardment. Certain tain Rockwell and his little band stuck Tatter went back three times from the.. entrenching operations were carried cut. it throughout the day, only falling back captured position to the British trench On Sunday, after our first great advance, at night to the German second line when with messages. He was finally wounded, the Engineers had to dig a communication ordered to retire. Seven orderlies were but managed to pass his message along trench six feet deep and 20 yards long sent back during the day for reinforce to another man, Corporal Btehn, a boy
They worked all right, and ments, but only one got through. under fire
stuck to his platoon. with the old. They wired the whole front, a valuable strip of the enemy's heavily ford The Warwicks showed what troops can and thousands of sandbags were carried tifed position, won by heavy sherifces, do when commanded by young officers. across a dangerous open space.
All this Great bravery was shown by the Many of the lieutenants and company by way of setting the stage before the ambulance parties, which began working offers are medical students, and two performance and changing the scenes the moment the first mon fell outside the were formerly drill-instructors in the between the aets!
British parapet.. Lieutenant Kelsey-Fry, Guards. Second-Lieutenant Chavasse, a The enemy knew that an attack was R.A.M.C. (who carried Lieutenant Glad nephew of the Bishop, a student with only impending. On Saturday they even stone out of action on his back) way dress six months' service, led the leading com shouted taunts across. Come on,
they ing wounded between the trenches for pany in the attack. oried;"wo are waiting.".
(Continud on page 7.)
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