| > > The
operations of winter 1914-15 |
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 Yesterday
we made an attack and, as we only put two battalions into it,
the attack naturally failed. We had about 400 casualties. It
is very depressing. I should have thought that we had learnt
our lesson at Neuve Chapelle [in October 1914] about unsupported
attacks, but it seems not.From "Armageddon
Road: A VC's Diary 1914-1916"
Billy Congreve, edited by Terry Norman (London: William Kimber &
Co., 1982) |
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| Summary |
This
was surely a most miserable time for the BEF. Trench conditions
were truly appalling; there were too few men, all too-regular
losses to sniping and mining operations, and insufficient supplies
of equipment and ammunition. Several attacks were made against
the increasingly strong enemy defences, but as events would
show, assaults made on a too-narrow front and with insufficient
artillery support and without the advantage of surprise were
all too costly. |
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| The
British Order of Battle |
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Soldiers
of the London Scottish seem cheerful enough in the sodden
trenches of Flanders in the winter of 1914 to 1915. |
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| Myths
and legends of winter 1914-1915 |
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The First Battle of Ypres, 1914
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The Battle of Neuve Chapelle, March 1915 |
