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The battle was the British part of the Third Battle of Artois, a Franco-British offensive (known to the Germans as the Herbstschlacht (Autumn Battle). Field Marshal Sir John French and Douglas Haig (GOC First Army), regarded the ground south of La Bassée Canal, which was overlooked by German-held slag heaps and colliery towers, as unsuitable for an attack, particularly given the discovery in ...
The move south to Loos was achieved by a series of night marches beginning on 20/21 September, arriving at Nœux-les-Mines at 23.00 on 24 September, when the men bivouacked in open fields in heavy rain. The British attack was launched at 06.30 the following morning, and at 11.15 62nd Bde was ordered up to a concentration area north of Mazingarbe.
Battle of Loos. In the Battle of Loos (25 September–8 October 1915) the British First Army attacked between Grenay and Givenchy in support of the French Tenth Army attack further south against Vimy (the Third Battle of Artois). 1st Division was at Le Rutoire, in the middle of the line, and was tasked with the sector running from Northern Sap ...
Formed in England in December 1914 – January 1915 from regular army battalions returning from India, Singapore and Egypt. In January 1915 the division moved to France and on to the Western Front. The division took part in the Second Battle of Ypres, where they suffered massive casualties, and in the Battle of Loos.
Battle of Ooteghem Military unit The 9th (Scottish) Division , was an infantry division of the British Army during the First World War , one of the Kitchener's Army divisions raised from volunteers by Lord Kitchener to serve on the Western Front during the First World War .
Battle of Loos † Captain Charles Hamilton Sorley (19 May 1895 – 13 October 1915) was a British Army officer and Scottish war poet who fought in the First World War . He was killed in action during the Battle of Loos in October 1915.
Edwards was born into a working-class family in Chelsea, London. [2] He married, but his wife and child both died in 1913. [3] On the outbreak of the war in August 1914 he was working as a stationer's assistant, but promptly enlisted in the 1st Battalion, London Irish Rifles, [4] who were based at the Duke of York's Barracks on the King's Road, Chelsea. [5]
The brigade, with the division, departed for the Western Front in August 1915, fighting in many of the major battles of the war, such as the Battle of Loos, the Battle of the Somme, the Battle of Vimy Ridge, Battle of Passchendaele and in the German spring offensive and the Hundred Days Offensive, which saw the war come to an end on 11 November ...