The Battle of Loos by A A G Whitehead

Author:A A G Whitehead [Whitehead, A A G]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Lume Books
Published: 2020-03-05T22:00:00+00:00

“A great deal of nonsense will be written about Loos. The real tragedy of that battle is its nearness to complete success. Most of us who reached the crest of Hill 70, and survived, were firmly convinced that we had broken through on that Sunday, 25th September 1915. There seemed to be nothing ahead of us, but an unoccupied and incomplete trench system. The only two things that prevented our advancing into the suburbs of Lens were, firstly, the exhaustion of the troops themselves (for they had undergone a belly full of marching and fighting that day) and, secondly, the flanking fire of numerous German machine-guns, which swept that bare hill from some factory buildings in Cite St. Auguste to the south of us. All that we needed was more artillery ammunition to blast those clearly located machine-guns, plus some fresh infantry to take over from the weary and depleted troops. But, alas, neither ammunition nor reinforcements were immediately available, and the great opportunity passed.”

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