Source: File: Over German aerodrome.
See an original image at: <http://www.earlyaeroplanes.com/archive3.htm> [Accessed 30 July 2017]
See an original image at: <http://www.earlyaeroplanes.com/archive3.htm> [Accessed 30 July 2017]
Along the battle
front, into the Belgium sector
On the 4th day,
51st week in the 3rd year of war,
Artillery raged -
reports verified by Douglas
Haig, described
enemy artillery close
To Armentieres
and coastal area North of Ypres.
Yet allied
activity was equal in the air above,
On the 4th day,
51st week in the 3rd year of war.
Attacks carried out
by the Royal Flying Corps
Led bombing
attacks across German
Aerodromes, to
number 4 to make destruction.
Downed aircraft
of the enemy numbered 16;
On the 4th day,
51st week in the 3rd year of war.
The attack force
flew 40 miles into territory
Of the enemy -
the report for Friday,
Told that three
allied craft remained missing.
While raids were
made through high clouds,
On the 5th day,
51st week in the 3rd year of war,
Also saw night
trench raids by British Tommy’s
At
Fontaine-lez-Croisilles, Havrincourt
Fleurbix, Epehy
and Rouex, in Ypres proximity.
Machine gun,
trench mortar and 77 prisoners,
On the 5th day,
51st week in the 3rd year of war
Proved a prize - yet
air battles also continued -
A great wave of
high activity would have
Seen 14 downed
enemy craft and 16 destroyed.
Not without cost,
as 13 allied plane were lost,
On the 5th day,
51st week in the 3rd year of war.
Further bombing
raids over 2 aerodromes
Whilst enemy railway
stations suffered;
Flyers took out 2
German observation balloons.
Claims from a Berlin
perspective entered news,
On the 5th day,
51st week in the 3rd year of war.
Their own pilots
taking down 35 allied craft -
How one squadron
shot downed 6 pilots,
While ground saw
intensity of highest artillery.
French efforts
proved successful defence, on
4th and 5th days,
51st week in the 3rd year of war,
Having repulsed
German attacks over Chemin
De Dames - as
were those in Champagne
And Meuse between
Hill 304 and Avocourt Wood.
At La Bovelle to
Hurtebise French took ground over
On 4th and 5th
days, 51st week in the 3rd year of war.
by Jamie Mann.
Anon.,1917. The War - French Success - Activity In Flanders.
The Daily Telegraph, [online]
30
July 1917. P.5. Col.1. Available
at: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/ww1-archive/12214740/Daily-Telegraph-July-30-1917.html
[Accessed: 30 July 2017].
Mann, J., 2016. 100 years Ago - Poems by Jamie Mann. [letter] (Personal
communication, 30 July 2017).
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