Arthur Conan Doyle
Published: 2013-09
Total Pages: 86
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1919 edition. Excerpt: ...gone forth as a strong battalion. The doctor was Ypreswounded, and only the chaplain was left, who dis-'MY 31tinguished himself by being the last man to recross the Steenbeek with a wounded man slung over his ' shoulder. Such was the experience of the Herts, and that of the Cheshires and of the Highlanders differed only in detail. A counter-attack along the whole corps' front was beaten back upon the evening of July 31, but the concentration of German artillery upon St. J ulien was so terrific that it was found necessary next day to withdraw the 1st Cambs who garrisoned the village, the adjacent bridge over the Steenbeek being retained. Next day the village was reoccupied. The Thirty-ninth Division, very hard hit by its victorious but strenuous service, was relieved upon August 4, after a terrible four days of constant rainfall and shell-fall, by the Forty-eighth South Midland Territorial_ Division, while a few days later their Highland comrades were relieved by the Eleventh Division. So battered was the Thirty-ninth Division that it was taken forthwith out of the line and its place in the corps was filled by the Fifty-eighth. To return to the order of the advance, Watts' Nineteenth Corps, which was the next one to the south, consisted of the Fifty-fifth West Lancashire Territorials with the Thirty-sixth Ulsters upon the left, ' while the Fifteenth Scottish Division supported by the Fourteenth Light Division were on the right. Of these we will deal first with the attack of the men of Lancashire. The advance was made by the 166th Brigade upon the left, and by the 165tlf upon the right. The first German line was rapidly carried, and the only serious fighting was at the strong point known as Pommern Redoubt, which held out...