Category: History - Modern (1750+)
PAGE CUINCHY, CAMBRIN AND THE LA BASSÉE SECTOR 12 THE BATTLE OF THE SOMME 28 HEBUTERNE, DAINVILLE AND GOMMECOURT 56 ARRAS, MONCHY AND THE SCARPE 84 ZILLEBEKE, MAPLE COPSE AND THE PASSCHENDAELE BATTLES 114 PASSCHENDAELE, GRAVENSTAFEL AND ZONNEBEKE 138 KEMMEL AND THE GERMAN OFFE...
Early on the morning of July 10th the long troop trains carrying the batteries of the 33rd Divisional Artillery drew into the stations of Longueau and Sallieux, in the neighbour...
9. CHAPTER VIII.In and around the Salient of Ypres there are to be found the graves of more gunners than in any portion of the line, and even those graves represent a mere particle only of the...
7. CHAPTER VI.The march of the batteries from the Somme to Arras proved very exacting; not only were the weather conditions rather more than bad—intense cold and wet being experienced the who...
11. PART I.Early on the morning of Tuesday, April 9th, there came to the batteries, as they lay resting in their wagon-lines, the sound of tremendous shelling to the south, a continuous th...
13. CHAPTER XI.Before the doings of the 33rd Divisional Artillery in the 3rd Army advance are followed, it will be wise to review the tactical situation on this part of the front from the open...
3. CHAPTER II.On a foggy afternoon, typical of Flanders in December, there crept into Aire station a long and heavy train obvious even to the lay mind as a troop train, consisting as it did n...
6. CHAPTER V.From November 23rd, the date of arrival at Airaines, until December 5th when the first units began the march back to the line again, a complete rest was enjoyed by the batteries...
14. CHAPTER XII.And so the work is done, the record finished. In all humbleness the pen was taken up to chronicle the deeds of these men; in all humbleness it is laid down again with the closin...
8. CHAPTER VII.When the batteries marched back to the wagon-lines on June 20th they knew that they were to set off next day to go into action immediately on another portion of the front, but t...
10. CHAPTER IX.After the tremendous fighting of the autumn offensive at Ypres and the smashing casualties which were suffered therein by the batteries, a full month in the rest area was requir...
5. CHAPTER IV.In the foregoing chapter the doings of the Divisional Artillery in the Battle of the Somme have been chronicled, and, in view of the very heavy strain undergone by all ranks, it...
12. PART II.Following on the two checks which had been administered to the Germans on April 29th and May 8th, there now set in a period of holding the line and of taking every possible step...
2. CHAPTER I.August 1914 and its succeeding months will ever recall to the minds of that generation which was privileged to live through those epic days memories of a great turmoil, a chaos,...
1. PART II. HOLDING THE ENEMY IN THE NORTH 168PAGE CUINCHY, CAMBRIN AND THE LA BASSÉE SECTOR 12 THE BATTLE OF THE SOMME 28 HEBUTERNE, DAINVILLE AND GOMMECOURT 56 ARRAS, MONCHY AND THE SCARPE 84 ZILLEBEKE, MAPLE COPSE AND TH...