Leeds Rifles by Andrew J. Kirk

Author:Andrew J. Kirk [Kirk, Andrew J.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: History, Military, World War I, Europe, Great Britain, General
ISBN: 9781526711526
Google: 2LPNDwAAQBAJ
Publisher: Pen and Sword
Published: 2017-10-30T00:34:03+00:00

For the 1/7th, the remaining Leeds Rifles in the 49th division, this was to be the last offensive action of the war. They had had a victory, a long awaited victory, a clear and unambiguous victory, over the German Army, now in headlong retreat to the Rhine and beyond. There would be a just a few of the Leeds Rifles family, a precious few, still in the battalion who might recall Lieutenant Colonel Tannett-Walker’s assertion all those years before that few battalions of the German Army were ‘one tin-tack better than the Leeds Rifles’. Those remaining few could now say with justification that they were indeed better than anything the Kaiser could throw at them.

The moves for peace taken so tentatively by the Germans in August had reached a more developed shape by October and by the end of that month the worsening military situation had caused an Armistice and disadvantageous terms to be forced upon them.

The 1/7th, having moved to Aulnoy on the 2nd, marched to Lieu-Saint-Amand for a couple of days rest and clean-up. On 5 november the battalion, by route march and bus, moved to Évin-Malmaison, north-west of Douai, for more rest, training and cleaning. It was in this place that they received news of the Armistice on 11 november 1918. There followed a brigade thanksgiving service.

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