Map of the Artois region north of the city of Arras, France, from The Illustrated War News, Part 41, May 19, 1915. The French launched the Second Battle of Artois on May 9, 1915 to try to capture the heights of Notre Dame de Lorette and Vimy.
Where the French are making important progress: the Carency district, the scene of the victorious battle and the line of the Loos-Arras advance.
"Early on the 25th January [1915] a deserter brought notice of an enemy attack on a larger scale against Cuinchy, now held by the 1st Brigade, and the French on its right; and against Givenchy, held by the 3rd Brigade. An attack did take place an hour and a half later, units of the German 84th Brigade (XIV. Corps) advancing south, and units of the 79th Brigade (VII. Corps)) north of the canal."
Excerpt from a history of British Military Operations in France and Belgium, 1915. The previous paragraph notes that, 'the front was never at rest ; but the principal combats took place in two areas,' one of them being in front of Cuinchy on the La Bassée Canal. Cuinchy is immediately south of the Canal, Givenchy immediately north.
Military Operations France and Belgium, 1915, Vol. I, Winter 1914-15: Battle of Neuve Chappelle : Battle of Ypres [Second] by J. E. Edmonds, pp. 29, 30, copyright © asserted, publisher: Macmillan and Co., Limited, publication date: 1927
1915-01-25, 1915, January, Givenchy, Cuinchy, map
