Happy New Year 1915! Bonne année! The New Year shoots down the Old over Paris. 1914 is represented by a German Taube, the New Year is loosely based on a French Blériot.
Bonne annéeHappy New Year1915 1914Logo: JM (?)406Reverse:Fabrication françaisMade in France
"June 29th. [1915] — In the Bois Grenier trenches, in relief of The Cameronians, the Battalion side-stepped slightly to the right in front of Touquet. The tour began with two days of rain, and a lot of explosive flying about, which did remarkably little damage. July 2nd — When we fired on an aeroplane the German retaliation with shells and rifle-grenades wounded only one man. The next July 3rd — two days were quiet. At night, on the right, the Germans introduced us to coloured signal rockets."
Entry covering June 29 to July 3, 1915 from the writings — diaries, letters, and memoirs — of Captain J.C. Dunn, Medical Officer of the Second Battalion His Majesty's Twenty-Third Foot, The Royal Welch Fusiliers. Troops rotated in and out of the front-line trenches, and the British moved to their right to take over more of the line previously held by the French. Touquet, Belgium is about five kilometers northeast of Armentières, France.
The War the Infantry Knew 1914-1919 by Captain J.C. Dunn, page 136, copyright © The Royal Welch Fusiliers 1987, publisher: Abacus (Little, Brown and Company, UK), publication date: 1994
1915-07-02, 1915, July, Taube
