Source:
File: Wounded from Neuve Chapelle.jpg, 2015. British,Germans and
Indians The Daily Telegraph, [online]
19
Mar. P.12. Col.3-5. [online]
Available at: <http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/ww1-archive/11480912/Daily-Telegraph-March-19-1915.html
> [Accessed: 1 March 2015].
Accounts came
Through, of the
fight for the ruins of Neuve Chapelle.
11th March and how
battered German troops were to out
To make regains.
On the following
morning,
Came renewal of
counter attacks about Neuve Chapelle -
Only to suffer
losses, but with gains of many prisoners
Into the British hands.
Effects of
exhaustion,
Led many Germans
under fire to raise their hands.
At Port Arthur -
south of the village Neuve Chapelle,
Lay a
communication trench
From which
seventy
Enemy were
captured as one - while north East, an
Enemy in British
Trenches about Neuve Chapelle
Were driven out.
Germans believed
weary,
The infantry
stormed houses into Neuve Chapelle -
About Moulin
Dupietre - to rush at them with bombs,
Catching eighty
prisoners.
Then entire
companies
Threw up their
arms about the village Neuve Chapelle -
Exhausted, by
lack of food and in trenches full of water
Without rations
on their line.
Bombardment effects
Saw German
survivors crawl out in dazed conditions -
As on the 10th, in
approach to lines of Neuve Chapelle -
Taken by surprise.
The village had
by then
Become a ruined
shambles - about all the ruined houses
Bodies were
strewn, as dead occupants of Neuve Chapelle;
Became prisoners
of death.
Within one night,
A patrol moved
under darkness, about Neuve Chapelle,
To come across a
figure before a trench - a dummy trap
To explode on
contact.
Then on the 13
March,
German Counter attacks reserves behind Neuve Chapelle -
At Bois du Beiz -
but guns retaliated to melt them away
From the woods.
Still more
prisoners -
So by the 4th day,
totaled 1,700 - during the 12th and 13th,
Pilots carried
out their mission above Neuve Chapelle,
To hit railways of Douai and
Don.
A quite lapse
fell
By the 14 March,
with enemy efforts turning to other parts
About St Eloi -
leaving the village of Neuve
Chapelle
Devoid of
fighting.
Bombardments
continued,
To turn on
settlements affected away from Neuve Chapelle -
A station at
Quesnoy and Aubers - where a tower hit, shot
Into the air and
crumbled in dust.
An event to
rankle
British troops
occurred, when in a break at Neuve Chapelle,
Settled down to
eat and drink rum - a hit caused evacuation.
Once regained all food was gone.
Now prisoners
told,
Who had been in
fight from start, that at Neuve Chapelle
A terrific attack
never before witnessed - angered captured,
Stating this was
total murder.
They had
forgotten
Their own methods
of intense concentration in field warfare,
Which the allies gave back, to cause at Neuve Chappelle
Resentment and effrontery.
Resentment and effrontery.
Despite enemy
conditions
Of exhausted
troops and reports of undernourished men,
German discipline
kept them clean, about Neuve Chapelle's
Filthy living
conditions.
A German promise
made,
Was to first
finish off the Russian front within a short time -
To turn on the
British - perhaps not now at Neuve Chapelle;
Still their optimism
remained.
A Spirit to match
The weary troops of the British - whose own companies
Marched back with
trophies of their time in Neuve Chapelle,
With captured 'picklehauben.'
by Jamie Mann.
Anon.,1915. Battle
of Neuve Chapelle - Splended Story of British Heroism - Trenches Rushed - Enemy
Taken by Surprise. The Daily Telegraph, [online] 19 Mar. P.9. Col.2-3. Available at:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/ww1-archive/11480912/Daily-Telegraph-March-19-1915.html
[Accessed: 19 March 2015].
Mann, J., 2015. 100 years Ago - Poems by Jamie Mann. [letter] (Personal
communication, 19 March 2015).
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