CHARGE OF THE GUARDS.
A BRILLIANT AFFAIR.
1 LONDON, September 22. Mr Phillip Gibbs sends a thrilling, story of the fight of the Guards on September. 15..- He says:—"They faced most difficult ground, held by. particularly strong forces of the enemy. For the first time ia history the Coldstream Guards charged. In the line behind them were the Grenadiers, and then the Irish. They had not gone 200 yards before they came under the enfilade fire of massed ma-chine-guns. Men fell, but the line was unbroken, and with closed ranks swept forward. The grey-coated Gernians became terror-stricken, and 1 jumped Jrom their pits .and shell i craters and fled. The Guards kept on until they reached two lines of trenches with entanglements, machinegun posts, and bombers. The Guards took the trenches by a frontal assault full in the fact of the blasts of the machine-guns. The 'Germans defended themselves to the death. It was a battle of bombs against the bayonet. " The Irish Guards now joined the
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume XXXVI, Issue 3562, 23 September 1916, Page 3
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167CHARGE OF THE GUARDS. Ashburton Guardian, Volume XXXVI, Issue 3562, 23 September 1916, Page 3
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