Neuve Chapelle - WWI

Neuve Chapelle. Including a separate hand-written description as follows - Here enemy made a counter-attack (under cover of a mist) in mass formation. Were driven back by our men in trenches on left of road and practically annihilated by our machine (guns) in houses on right. Present line of Germans (May 16) under tall trees in middle distance.Probably taken from the German perspective, looking north-east, with the ruined Pietre Mill in the left foreground and with the British lines in the (rather truncated) distance. Captain Edward Handley-Read, Rba - Machine Gun Corps (1869-1935)

1869 Annihilated Chapelle Description Driven Follows Handley Mist Neuve Pietre Practically Rather Separate Truncated

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