Vietnam or Thailand ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Updated: June 7, 2025
It required a newspaper agitation to convert some of the authorities as to the need of high explosives. After a rest the Canadians took over a new piece of line near Festubert, and a hot spot it was. We knew this area well as far forward as the advanced dressing stations, and had been there by day and night in the car.
True, Noyon, Peronne, Bapaume, Albert and Montdidier, on the south, and Festubert, Neuve Chappelle, Armentieres, and Paaschendaele, to the north, were successively captured from the Allies, in spite of the most gallant and heroic resistance.
'Sir William thinks he is somewhere near Festubert? My hat, the Lanchesters have been having a hot time there! funny, isn't it? But they'll be moved to an easier job soon. They're always in luck the Lanchesters funny, I call it? what? I wouldn't worry if I were you. Your husband's got through this all right mightn't have another such show for ages. These things are awful chancey funny, isn't it?
"Come down, Tony!" he said. "Hurry up!" "Cheerio, Captain!" shouted Tony. "What about Festubert?" "Come down, Tony," said Maitland, "and be quick about it!" "Sorry, can't do it, Captain. I am a fixture here." Like a cat, Maitland swarmed up the pole and coming to a level with Tony, struck him swiftly and unexpectedly a single blow. It caught Tony on the chin.
Vaast, where they successfully bombed the enemy in dugouts and brought away a number of prisoners. All day British artillery was active north of the Somme in the neighborhood of Beaumont-Hamel, Lens, and the Ypres sector. Northeast of Festubert the British carried out a successful raid in which they captured an officer and a number of other ranks.
And lastly, and perhaps of most importance to the French, the belief in the superiority of the German soldier, as a result of 1870, was shattered in the mind of the Frenchman. To aid the French in the Artois, the British made a forward movement in the Festubert region in May, 1915. Its purpose was to prevent the Seventh German Corps from sending troops and artillery to reenforce Lens.
The Indian contingent had received orders to keep in touch with the Third Division. The Fifty-first Division was sent to Estaires to act as a support to the First Army. By the night of May 17, 1915, the British held all of the first line of German trenches from the south of Festubert to Richebourg l'Avoué.
Under these pleasant circumstances, plus a little setting-up drill and "physical jerks," we passed a very pleasant fortnight before going into the trenches again this time at Givenchy. It was now the turn of the 1st Brigade to emulate the gallant deeds of the 2nd and 3rd Brigades at Ypres and Festubert, and right gallantly they did so.
Previous successful operations by the British at Richebourg and Festubert north of Givenchy, and at Vermelles, south of Cuinchy, evidently prompted the Germans to attempt a counterattack. Besides it was desirable for the Germans to test the strength of the Allies at this point, and to do this with some measure of success the Germans massed a considerable force for this purpose.
Then when he was badly wounded in some fighting near Festubert, in May 1915, and came home for two months' leave, he seemed like a stranger, and Beryl had not known what to be at with him. She was told that he had suffered very much it had been a severe thigh wound implicating the sciatic nerve and that he had been once, at least, very near to death.
Word Of The Day
Others Looking