The British Campaign in France and Flanders, 1917
CHAPTER II
THE BATTLE OF ARRAS
April 9 to April 23, 1917.
Vast preparations--Attack of Snow's Seventh Corps--The Ibex Trench--Attack of Haldane's Sixth Corps--Attack of Fergusson's Seventeenth Corps--A Scottish Front--The splendid Canadians--Capture of Mouchy--Essex and Newfoundland--A glorious episode--The Chemical Works--Extension of the battle to the north--Desperate fight of the Australians at Bullecourt