Poem ~ Third Year, 51 Weeks Of War - Monday, 30 July 1917

Source: File: Over German aerodrome. 
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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Poem ~ Hassler: Captain And Author - Tuesday, 23 January 1917- Thursday, 25 January 1917

Source: File: Joseph Hassler when promoted to General. See an original image at: <http://www.museedusousofficier.fr/musee/Histoire/ecoles/ecole/2/command_3.htm> [Accessed 23 January 2017]

An online version of the manual, 'The Weapon in the Great War - Simplified Bayonet Method' - 1915 by Joseph Hassler and Emile André can be viewed at:

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/alrmqf5v3pa0dnh/AAB7NU5DJxk3OIqi5K5_epVAa?dl=0

French soldier Captain Joseph Hassler, 

With injuries to count five times, had

Possibly spent part of his recovery

In completing a book for other soldiers.

On returning to the frontline with his

Head still bandaged, was published

'Ma Campagne, Aout 1914 - Decembre

1915'; telling what he had experienced.

Hassler had begun an army career

Years before at the end of the prior

Century - 1899 had seen the 18 year

Old volunteer at the Bethune army office.

Initially in the 19th infantry regiment,

Based in Brest - some five years later

1905, in the month of April, Hassler was
At the military school At Saint-Maixent.

April 1906 Hassler was 2nd lieutenant,

With 13th Regiment based at Nevers -

By April 1908 promoted to Lieutenant,

He became an instructor at Joinville.

While at the Gymnastics and Fencing

School in 1913, Lieutenant Hassler

Joined in the defence of France from

The opening days of August 1914.

During those first weeks of the war

Hassler sustained five different

Injuries; he decided to chronicle first

Sixteen months of his experiences.

Promotion came once again; to become

Captain 22 January 1915, followed by

Award of Military Cross and several

Clasps - unaffected he wrote in honesty.

In an address to a friend and poet,

Ernest Jaubert, he told a hasty truth

How he had been trepanned - where

An operation had burred in his head.

By use of a surgical instrument,

A trephine, surgeons removed

Metal fragments - bits of helmet

And shell, driven into his skull.

With recovery Hassler told how they

Checked him over - healing from

The fifth wound, Hassler felt only

A little giddy to surprise surgeons.

Shock, not just for the Doctors in his

Constitution, but to see resemblance

To a calf’s head - Hassler stared

Hard into a mirror at his bald plate.

Hassler informed Jaubert how just 

A little parsley in nostrils and ears,

Would make him fit him for a perfect

Display, in any butcher's window.

Stating regret for the appearance

Hassler added, despite his other

Unseen wounds, that a shape of a

Red tomato was a result of the cut.

Likely a permanent reminder of his

Being wounded - though a seasoned

Soldier, Hassler revealed a hint

Of sensitivity by honest descriptions.

Captain Hassler had seen to the
Men first - that they were all safe 
In a prepared trench - only afterwards 
A dug out was then created for him.

In the men's digging of the ground,

Many dead Boche were unearthed -

In darkness these were shadowed -

Yet tired, he fell asleep and snored.

But the dark abated and in waking

Eyes he witnessed light of horror -

Body parts made the inside walls;

Dead feet, dead hands and arms.

He ducked beneath them into day

Light - two lifeless heads faced him;

Germans - one freshly severed that

Stared at him with a look of terror.

A non-breathing mouth had opened

Wide, unseeing eyes stared hard,

Frozen in a decayed occupation -

The sight by moonlight held terrors.

Hassler wished how he could blot

Out again and again, the four days

And four nights that he lived amid

The stench of their dead company.

Yet Captain Hassler's sensitivity

Survived - to be respected by many

Men - later a corporal brought him

News of a fatally wounded man.

With injuries so severe he found

Him dying - Hassler greeted the

Trooper almost casually, to know

He was dying; both of them knew.

The soldier confirmed this aloud,

To show his stomach, shattered

By a shell and asked to be able

To say something to the Captain.

Hassler though advised that only

Once he was safe in ambulance,

Should he then consider a remote

Idea of dying - but the man insisted.

He knew he was close to death

And asked the Captain a favour -

A large tear fell over his cheek,

On asking him to write home.

To tell his last thoughts were with

His wife and children, with whom

Love was deeply shared; 'Mon

Capitaine could I kiss your cheek.'

The dying man's request was to

Say the kiss was for them. Hassler

Held him close until the end, to lay

Him back against the trench wall.

Captain Joseph Hassler admitted 
How such events rip out the heart -

That he could not think of what

Befell such men without crying.

by Jamie Mann.

Anon.,1917. Fragments From The Trenches - A Soldiers Book. The Daily Telegraph, [online] 6 January 1917. P.7. Col.4. Available at: <http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/ww1-archive/12214077/Daily-Telegraph-January-9-1917.html> [Accessed: 22 January 2017].

Source: File: Joseph Hassler. Wiki Pas-De-Calais. Available at: <https://translate.google.co.uk/translate?hl=en&sl=fr&u=http://www.wikipasdecalais.fr/index.php%3Ftitle%3DJoseph_Hassler&prev=search

Joseph Hassler> [Accessed 22 January 2017]

Source: File: Romani During World War I. Wikipedia. Available at: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romania_during_World_War_I#1917_campaign_and_armistice> [Accessed 22 January 2017]

Mann, J., 2016. 100 years Ago - Poems by Jamie Mann. [letter] (Personal communication, 22 January 2017). 

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Poem ~ Hassler: Capitaine Et Auteur - Mardi 23 Janvier 1917- Jeudi 25 Janvier 1917

Source: Fichier: Joseph Hassler lorsqu'il est promu Général. Voir une image originale sur: <http://www.museedusousofficier.fr/musee/Histoire/ecoles/ecole/2/command_3.htm> [Consulté le 23 janvier 2017]

Une version en ligne du manuel «L'arme dans la grande guerre - méthode simplifiée de la baïonnette» - 1915 de Joseph Hassler et Emile André peut être consultée à l'adresse suivante:
Https://www.dropbox.com/sh/alrmqf5v3pa0dnh/AAB7NU5DJxk3OIqi5K5_epVAa?dl=0

Le soldat français Capitaine Joseph Hassler,

Avec des blessures à compter cinq fois,

Possiblement passé une partie de sa récupération

En complétant un livre pour d'autres soldats.

En revenant à la ligne de front avec son

Head encore bandé, a été publié

'Ma Campagne, Aout 1914 - Decembre

1915 '; Disant ce qu'il avait vécu.

Hassler avait commencé une carrière militaire

Des années avant à la fin de la période

Siècle - 1899 avait vu les 18 ans ancien

Bénévole au bureau de l'armée de Bethune.

Initialement dans le 19ème régiment d'infanterie,

Basé à Brest - environ cinq ans plus tard

En 1905, au mois d'avril, Hassler était

A l'école militaire de Saint-Maixent.

Avril 1906 Hassler était 2e lieutenant,

Avec le 13e régiment basé à Nevers -

En avril 1908 promu au lieutenant,

Il est devenu instructeur à Joinville.

Lors de la gymnastique et de l'escrime

École en 1913, lieutenant Hassler

Rejoint dans la défense de la France

Les jours d'ouverture d'août 1914.

Pendant ces premières semaines

De la guerre Hassler a soutenu cinq

Traumatismes; Il a décidé de chroniquez

D'abord seize mois de ses expériences.

La promotion est venue encore une fois;

Devenir capitaine 22 janvier 1915, suivi de

Prix ​​de la Croix militaire et plusieurs

Fermoirs - non affecté, il a écrit en honnêteté.

Dans une allocution à un ami et poète,

Ernest Jaubert, il a dit une vérité hâtive

Comment il avait été trépané - où

Une opération s'était creusée dans sa tête.

En utilisant un instrument chirurgical,

A trephine, chirurgiens enlevés

Fragments de métal - morceaux de casque

Et la coquille, enfoncée dans son crâne.

Avec la récupération, Hassler a vérifié

Le sur-guérison de la cinquième blessure,

Hassler ne se sentait un peu étourdi

Pour surprendre les chirurgiens.

Choc, pas seulement pour les médecins dans son

Constitution, mais pour voir la ressemblance

À la tête d'un veau - Hassler regarda

Dur dans un miroir à sa calvitie.

Hassler a informé Jaubert comment un peu

De persil dans les narines et les oreilles,

Ferait lui lui adapter pour un parfait afficher,

Dans n'importe quelle fenêtre de boucherie.

Déclaration de regret pour l'apparence

Hassler a ajouté, malgré son autre

Des blessures invisibles, que la forme d'un

La tomate rouge est le résultat de la coupe.

Probablement un rappel permanent de son

Être blessé - bien que chevronné

Soldat, Hassler a révélé un soupçon

De sensibilité par des descriptions honnêtes.

Le capitaine Hassler avait les hommes

D'abord - qu'ils étaient tous en sécurité

Dans une tranchée préparée - seulement

Après un creusé a alors été créé pour lui.

Dans les hommes qui creusent le sol,

Beaucoup de Boche morts ont été

Déterrés - dans l'obscurité, pourtant

Fatigué, il s'endormit et ronfla.

Mais l'obscurité atténuée et au réveil

Yeux il a vu la lumière de l'horreur -

Les parties du corps ont fait les murs

Intérieurs; pieds morts, mains et bras morts.

Il a plongé sous eux dans le jour

Lumière - deux têtes sans vie face à lui;

Allemands - un fraîchement coupé qui

Il le regarda avec un air de terreur.

Une bouche non respiratoire avait ouvert

Des yeux écarquillés, frozen dans une

Ooccupation délabrée - la vue au clair

De lune contenait des terreurs.

Hassler souhaitait comment il pourrait blot

Une fois de plus, les quatre jours

Et quatre nuits qu'il a vécu au milieu

La puanteur de leur compagnie morte.

Pourtant, la sensibilité du capitaine Hassler

Survivé - être respecté par beaucoup

Les hommes - plus tard un caporal l'a amené

Nouvelles d'un homme mortellement blessé.

Avec des blessures si sévères, il a trouvé

Lui mourant - Hassler a salué la

Trooper presque casuellement, pour savoir

Il était mourant; Tous les deux savaient.

Le soldat le confirma à haute voix,

Pour montrer son estomac, brisé

Par un obus et a demandé à pouvoir

Pour dire quelque chose au capitaine.

Hassler a toutefois une fois qu'il était

En sécurité en ambulance, devrait-il

Alors envisager une idée de mourir -

Mais l'homme a insisté.

Il savait qu'il était proche de la mort

Et a demandé au capitaine une faveur -

Une grande larme tomba sur sa joue,

En lui demandant d'écrire à la maison.

Pour dire ses dernières pensées ont été

Avec sa femme et ses enfants, avec qui

L'amour était profondément partagé; 'Lun

Capitaine, je pourrais embrasser ta joue.

La demande du mourant était de

Dis que le baiser était pour eux. Hassler

Il l'a tenu près jusqu'à la fin, pour

Lui contre le mur de la tranchée.

Capitaine Joseph Hassler admis

Comment ces événements arracher

Le cœur - qu'il ne pouvait pas penser

A quoi befell ces hommes sans pleurer.

Par Jamie Mann.

Anon., 1917. Fragments des tranchées - Un livre des soldats. The Daily Telegraph, [en ligne] le 9 janvier 1917. P.7. Col.4. Disponible à: <http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/ww1-archive/12214077/Daily-Telegraph-January-9-1917.html> [Accès: 22 janvier 2017].

Source: Fichier: Joseph Hassler. Wiki Pas-de-Calais. Disponible à l'adresse suivante: <https://translate.google.co.uk/translate?hl=fr&sl=fr&u=http://www.wikipasdecalais.fr/index.php%3Ftitle%3DJoseph_Hassler&prev=search

Joseph Hassler> [consulté le 22 janvier 2017]

Source: Fichier: Romani Pendant la Première Guerre mondiale. Disponible à l'adresse suivante: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romania_during_World_War_I#1917_campaign_and_armistice> [Accès le 22 janvier 2017]

Mann, J., 2016. Il ya 100 ans - Poèmes de Jamie Mann. [Lettre] (communication personnelle, 22 janvier 2017).

Poem ~ Season Of Peace And War - Monday, 25 December 1916 - Tuesday 26 December 1916

Source: File: Ruheben Camp festive card. Sketch depicting the card as they might have appeared in 1917 ‑ had the war ended that year. See an original image at: <https://www.worldwar1postcards.com/christmas-postcards.php> [Accessed 15 December 2016]

Reaching a bridge of 24 months from

First war Christmas, came 1916 festivities -

Situations of moods had long changed,

Across bitter stalemate of frontlines.

For the dead there were no celebrations.

Many that had once kicked a football

Across No Mans Land, long laid below

Or scattered across its poisoned mud.

Verdun, Somme and many new names

Of battles marked the bitter losses - any

Type of fraternisation forbidden by orders;

No football games of Hun versus Tommy.

Yet such truces of peace were not totally

Diminished - many Germans called out

Across the void to the Tommy and the Poilu

For 'Trêve de Noël' and 'Weihnachtsfrieden.'

The French spirit for 'live and let live' saw

Sectors sing to each other in native songs,

Along with exchanged gifts thrown across

Closest spaces of their outermost trenches.

Still the season, though subdued, continued.

Back in blighty had been orgainsed programs,

To get Christmas puddings to the front troops;

Though jokes abounded, if they would arrive.

With frozen stalemate in mud and the worst

Weather for more that 30 years, shortages

Were taking a grip - seasonal telegrams did

Not halt to tell men’s families of their deaths.

Not to forget the detained, held in camps from

Either side - with those most talented devising

Festive postcards - the artistic in the Ruhleben

Civilian camp held since 1914, drew designs.

In a card for xmas two detainees stare beyond

The wire towards the rising sun in hope of 1917;

A version shows them dancing before a happy

Sun and posts without wire, had the war ended.

A cherub builds three blocks for each war year;

1916 atop 1915 and 1914 - while yet another

Card, a smirking cherub kicks away the blocks -

Tentatively wishing happy forebodings for 1917.

With many an unlucky Tommy still on duty

In the trenches - as witnessed by news reporters

Such as Philip Gibbs - where after frosts, sleet

And snow found Christmas Eve a mild day.

Winter sunshine reflected across swamps

And flooded holes described in poetic images;

As supply columns churned their ways through

Mud, delivering feast day supplies to troops.

Gibbs saw soldiers as Noah like figures building

Colonies of huts, with attempts to abate floods -

Figures everywhere, splattered stiff with pale mud,

Emerged from lines imbued with Christmas spirits.

By subdued daylight Tommy's, Jocks and Anzacs

Sought out trinkets in nearest of French village

Markets - while on eve of feast day the reporter

Found a crowded restaurant, ready to celebrate.

Characters at every table; Tommy’s and Poliu

In salute of Entente Cordiale; 'Bonne chance!'

'Nous Les Aurons' and counter Christmas wishes

To old Fritz - here and there sat puzzled faces.

Young faces of 1916 recruits, amid the mature

Old Contemptibles, drawn into other temporary

Moods - away from the easy warmth and light

He took a few steps into darkness, to see blinks

Of horizon shells - somewhere soldiers died.

by Jamie Mann.

Gibb. P.,1916. Tommy's Xmas Eve - Scenes And Contrasts - A Memorable Picture. The Daily Telegraph, [online] 26 December 1916. P.7. Col.1-2. Available at: <http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/ww1-archive/12214032/Daily-Telegraph-December-26-1916.html> [Accessed: 26 December 2016].

Source: File: Picture Postcards From The Great War  - WW1 Christmas Postcards  by Tony Allen- 1914-1918. Available at: < https://www.worldwar1postcards.com/christmas-postcards.php> [Accessed 26 December 2016]

Mann, J., 2016. 100 years Ago - Poems by Jamie Mann. [letter] (Personal communication, 26 December 2016). 

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/ww1-archive/12214032/Daily-Telegraph-December-26-1916.html

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Poem ~ War's First Casualty - Friday, 4 August 1916 - Sunday, 6 August 1916

Source: File: Corporal Jules Andre Peugeot. See an original image at: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:A_photo_of_Jules_Andre_Peugeot.jpg> [Accessed 4 August 2016]

Source: File: Lieutenant Albert Otto Walter Mayer. See an original image at: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Lt_Mayer.jpg> [Accessed 4 August 2016]

With the anniversary of war,

Came thoughts of 2 years before,

To discuss who had been the very

First casualty of the Great War.

In truth it was not just one man

But two who would die within short

Time of each other - a German

And French man, on 2 August 1914.

Albert Mayer born 1892, grew

Up in Alsace at Mulhouse and

Joined the army in 1912 - by 1914

Becoming a cavalry lieutenant.

Only thirty miles away born a year

Later, 1893 was Jules Peugeot

At Etupes - in desire to teach, Jules

Took a post at Villers le Lac, 1912.

With compulsory military service,

A year later saw Peugeot in army,

To become corporal by April 1914 -

Likely to become an officer cadet.

From the base at Lons-le-Saunie

His infantry brigade was located

To Montbéliard - following threats,

After July royalty assassinations.

In very likely escalation to conflict,

The 27th Infantry Brigade readied

For war footing, to move into Alsace;

Orders to guard 10 km from border.

In opposition to French mobilisation on

1 August 1914 29th cavalry Brigade,

In which Lieutenant Mayer served,

Took orders to make reconnaissance.

These cavalry patrols noted lacking

Of French presence on their border -

New orders came - they were to cross

The border to seek out information.

Taking to their horses on 2 August

Eleven German patrols set off about

Belfort - Lieutenant Mayer took

His into France, east of Courtelevant.

Some miles away, that same day,

Corporal Peugeot was at Joncherey

Village, manning a eastern sentry

Point of Joncherey - Faverois road.

Sunday 2 August 1914 began - a new,

Clear summer’s day, as German troops

Began their attempt of a Luxembourg

Invasion - a low-key event using cars.

A strangely odd affair, lacking clarity

To see destruction at Troisvierges of

Telegraphs and rails, prior to being

Told the invasion was to be day after.

One incident of three customs officers

Shouting, had provoked threats from

One officer – while a German group

Requested directions into France.

Elsewhere, almost 9 a.m., a German

Party arrived at the French frontier east

Of Belfort, at Petit Croix –  a German
Officer stepped from the Customs house.

The first fracare began where three

Customs officers were shot on - only

To withdraw without a reply - but other

Staff came once more under fire.

In charge of the Customs House,

Capitaine Dentz returned the very first

Shots in confirmation of war - between

Them 49 rounds but none hit the other.

From Sepois-le-Bas Lieutenant Mayer

And seven Jaegers took a break, next

To a small stream, allowing their horses

To drink as the hour moved forwards.

10 a.m. Corporal Peugeot paused

In the mornings warmth and dipped

His hands into water to wash, ready

To eat breakfast on the summer’s day.

Stationed opposite Msieur Docourts

Farm house whose daughter, Nicolet,

Went to fetch drinking water - she ran

Back calling ‘the Prussians are coming!’

The 9-year-old girl repeated the fact -

German soldiers watering horses close

To Faverois - yet Nicolet's warning was

Too slow as the Germans approached.

Lieutenant Mayer's patrol was closing

In on the sentry post  - already seen, a

Sentry sounded alarm to take up arms -

Peugeot and others went to the road.

The sentry stepped out, leading the patrol.

Lieutenant Mayer swiped his sabre down

At the guard, cutting only his equipment

And coat, Peugeot called out ’Halte-la!’

The French intent was to make their arrest,

But Mayer was not having this, as he pulled

A revolver and took a shot - the first bullet

Missed, but another hit Peugeot’s shoulder.

The next bullet missed but damage had been

Done, as the German bullet hit the Frenchman,

Out through his right shoulder - despite this

Peugeot fired back as he fell, but missed.

Now the French opened fire on the German

Cavalry - while the others scattered Mayer

Was hit, first in the stomach, then a direct

Shot to the head, that killed him instantly.

Corporal Jules Peugeot stood, to stagger

A few paces - to see the first German dead

Along with two horses – carried to Docourt’s

House he died on the steps, with another 30

Hours until war would be officially declared.

By Jamie Mann.

Anon.,1916. First War Victim. The Daily Telegraph, [online] 3 August 1916. P.10. Col.6. Available at: <http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/ww1-archive/12212426/Daily-Telegraph-August-3-1916.html>[Accessed: 4 August 2016].

Source: File: Brothers in Arms.The First to Fall: Peugeot and Mayer, 2 August 1914. Available at: <The First to Fall: Peugeot and Mayer, 2 August 1914 - See more at: http://www.westernfrontassociation.com/great-war-people/brothers-arms/1515-the-first-to-fall-peugeot-and-mayer-2-august-1914.html#sthash.gwGyIUjN.dpuf> [Accessed 4 August 2016]

Source: File: Skirmish at Joncherey. Available at: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skirmish_at_Joncherey> [Accessed 4 August 2016]

Source: File: Jules-André Peugeot. Available at: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skirmish_at_Joncherey> [Accessed 4 August 2016]

Mann, J., 2016. 100 years Ago - Poems by Jamie Mann. [letter] (Personal communication, 4 August 2016). 

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/ww1-archive/12212426/Daily-Telegraph-August-3-1916.html

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