BRITISH ARMY CASUALTIES
HEAVY TOLL AMONGST THE OFFICERS. The High Commissioner reports (Lcrn. don, March 22, 6.35 p.m.) Army.—Officers: Killed 10, wounded 9. Men: Killed 85, wounded 263, missing 193. THE BATTLE OF NEUVE CHAPELLE London, March 22. A Toronto paper publishes a- message showing that were killed in the fighting at NeuVe Chapelle and St. Eloi, indicating that whole battalions were taken into action by their leaders. The fallen colonels are Gk B. Laurie (Royal Irish Rifles), G. B. M'Andrew (Lincolns), M'Lean and H. P. TJniacko' (Gordon Highlanders), C. L. Nicholson fSast Lancashires), and C. S. Prichard (Northampton). Seven majors and twenty-two captains were killed, and the rest of the eighty-three officers killed were lieutenants. Tile first conclusion was that it was a thoroughly British victory, but dew's showed tlie presence of Canadian and Hindu troops, which made it almost an Empire victory. On the basis of 195 commissioned officers killed or died of wounda since March 10, the proportionate loss of men is 7650, not computing the wounded and missing.
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Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2417, 24 March 1915, Page 5
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172BRITISH ARMY CASUALTIES Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2417, 24 March 1915, Page 5
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