Irish Guards
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共 28 段- On the morning of August 16 they marched to Vadencourt, wher
- On the 7th September the Battalion made a forced march from
- North of Armentières the situation had settled itself in muc
- On the 4th November there was an outburst of machine-gunning
- On the 30th December Captain Eric Gough was killed by a stra
- A weird attempt was made at daybreak on the 7th February by
- Among the distinguished visitors to be shown the trenches wa
- Bombing classes with a new and an “absolutely safe” bomb (Mi
- He had commanded the Battalion since November, 1914, and no
- A section of trench held by the Scots Fusiliers on the immed
- La Gorgue, under Estaires, upon the sluggish Lys in sodden w
- On the 23rd March, as the Battalion was going into the trenc
- The casualties for a “quiet” twelve days’ tour, including th
- The net result up to the middle of September had been to adv
- Fresh rumours of German counter-attacks arrived after midnig
- They paraded on the 5th October for the Divisional Commander
- Parallel to this, at a distance ranging from one to two mile
- The Salient had been the running sore in our armies’ side si
- They were shelled and rained upon throughout the whole of th
- On the 13th October they, with their Brigade, took over the
- They do not seem to have been called upon to do more than si
- Three days in Arras prison saw them back again in support ju
- The 1st Battalion, sufficiently occupied with its own front
- But all this was as light, casual, and unrelated as the thro
- On the 29th August, a hot day, they lay in old trenches over
- The trench filled as the day went on, with details dropping
- Battalion relief came when the 24th Battalion Royal Fusilier
- Their road wound through small and inconspicuous hamlets amo