haisnes

Updated: June 11, 2025

This had all been captured by the 9th Division, but owing to counter-attacks from Auchy and Haisnes, had had to be abandoned, and the enemy had once more occupied the Redoubt.

John David Hills - The Fifth Leicestershire: A Record Of The 1/5th Battalion The Leicestershire Regiment,: T.F., During The War, 1914-1919.

Through the rain and the mist loomed the long black ridge of Notre Dame de Lorette, where many poor bodies lay in the rotting leaves. The ruins of Haisnes and Hulluch were jagged against the sky-line. And here, on New Year's eve, I saw no sign of human life and heard no sound of it, but stared at the broad desolation and listened to the enormous clangor of great guns.

Philip Gibbs - Now It Can Be Told