Source: File: British infantry advancing through gas at Loos, 25 September
1915..jpeg [online] see an original image at: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Loos>
[20 October 2015].
With the new
armies engaged about Loos,
Determined actions
of the Welsh Guards
Commenced in
early hours of a Monday
27 September;
within darkness they began.
Over ground
unfamiliar to the Welsh fighters,
Their target was
to make capture of Hill 70 -
A piece of earth
that had been seized
And lost numbers
of times - they moved.
A small fight
within a big fight, in slopes
Of occupied
trenches to feel their force -
Despite finding
themselves in tunnel
Of fire they
fought forwards - they rushed.
In the gain of
Hill 70 ground, casualties
Took down their officers
- the first to fall
Captain Osmond
Williams afterwards
Lieutenant
Randolph - they fought onwards.
Further were
wounded a Lieutenant
Rupert Lewis,
along with a Captain
Rhys Williams - then success to take
Hill 70 marked by
losses - they won.
The Welsh Guards
Senior Captain Palmer,
Who had led a charge to take that Hill 70
Was hit and killed by a
rifle bullet - the news
Sent to Lord
Mayor of Cardiff, sadly learned.
by Jamie Mann.
Anon.,1915. Welsh
Guard Baptism of Fire at Hill 70. The Daily Telegraph, [online] 20 October.
P.11. Col.3. Available at: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/ww1-archive/11928898/Daily-Telegraph-October-20-1915.html
[Accessed: 20 October 2015].
Mann, J., 2015. 100 years Ago - Poems by Jamie Mann. [letter] (Personal
communication, 20 October 2015).
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