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Map of the plan for the Allied Offensive in France showing the situation on September 24, the eve of the infantry assault. An Anglo-French would attack eastward in Artois (with the British at Loos) as the French attacked northwards in Champagne. From 'Military Operations France and Belgium, 1915, Vol. II, Battles of Aubers Ridge, Festubert, and Loos' by Brigadier-General J.E. Edmonds.
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Situation, 24th September 1915
Showing direction of the Allied offensive

Map of the plan for the Allied Offensive in France showing the situation on September 24, the eve of the infantry assault. An Anglo-French would attack eastward in Artois (with the British at Loos) as the French attacked northwards in Champagne. From 'Military Operations France and Belgium, 1915, Vol. II, Battles of Aubers Ridge, Festubert, and Loos' by Brigadier-General J.E. Edmonds.

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Situation, 24th September 1915

Showing direction of the Allied offensive

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Saturday, October 9, 1915

"Saturday, 9th October Heard that G attack was a complete failure — attacked in mass in 3 lines with only about 500 men. Reached within 50 yards being mown down by our machine guns — Douglas saw it. In the morning G. shelled the wall again and killed 3 men one a Scottish Corporal Matthew of B. also a 1st Gloucester and an RFA man — many wounded."

Quotation Context

Entry for October 9, 1915 from the diary of W. Boddington of the London Scottish Regiment. The October 8 German counter-attack to attempt to recapture the town of Loos, taken by the British in beginning of the Battle of Loos. The German attack was much more extensive than the 500 men of whom Boddington writes.

Source

The Battle of Loos by Philip Warner, page 138, copyright © Philip Warner 1976, publisher: Wordsworth Editions Limited, publication date: 2000 (originally 1976)

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1915-10-09, 1915, October, Battle of Loos