Barbed wire helps stop the Hun on the Western Front. A March 14, 1918 photograph, one week before the beginning of Operation Michael, Germany's Somme Offensive.
Reverse:Barbed wire helps stop the Hun on the Western Front.This officer and his men are handling a quantity of barbed wire in a trench on the Western Front. The wire comes in mighty handy in helping stop German raiding parties. British official photo. 3/14/18.
"There is no other course open to us but to fight it out. Every position must be held to the last man; there must be no retirement. With our backs to the wall, and believing in the justice of our cause, each one of us much fight on to the end. The safety of our homes and the freedom of mankind depend alike upon the conduct of each one of us at this critical moment."
British Commander General Douglas Haig's Order of the Day for April 11, the third day of German commander Erich Ludendorff's second great offensive of 1918, Operation Georgette, the Lys Offensive. The offensive, a pared-down version of a previously rejected plan, was an attack on the Lys River along the Franco-Belgian border. On the first day, after a two-day preliminary bombardment, the Germans demolished a half-strength Portuguese line then spread north and south attacking the British to either side.
The Great Events of the Great War in Seven Volumes by Charles F. Horne, page 105, copyright © 1920 by The National Alumnia, publisher: The National Alumni, publication date: 1920
1918-04-11, 1918, April, Haig, Douglas Haig, British troops stringing wire
