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DEEDS THAT WON
THE DAY • INCIDENTS OF THE BATTLE OF FESTUBERT (Reo. May 31, 0.10 a.m.) London, May 29. A correspondent at British Headquarters details some of the gallant deeds at Festubert. A company of the Scots' Guards, with two officers, went too far ahead, and was cut off oil the Rue de Caillans. A few day 6 later the bodies were found, soaked with the rain and blackened by tlie sun, amid piles of German corpses. The bloodsoakedgrass, of broken rifles and twisted bayonets, testified to the Scots' desperate struggle against overwhelming odds. The Welsh fusiliers made a brilliant dash through the dense lyddite fumes, due to the British shells, and hurled themselves on the breaches in the parapets. Lieutenant-Colonel Gabbett died of five bullet wounds at the beginning of the charge. Major Dickson, the second in command, fell a moment later. A desperate bayonet struggle resulted, and the Germans were cleared out of the trenches. Two batteries of German artillery then plastered the Welshmen witfi Tiigh explosives. NeverfcheldSs company after company reached the captured trenches. A party of Welshmen rushed another trench, and although only four bombthrowers were left, bombed the Germans out of a cottage which was held as an advanced until they were ordered to retire m tne evening. _ "Sergeant Barter, of the Welsh Fusiliers, went out on May 16 with seven bomb-throwers, bombed a number of trenches, and occupied one 500 yds. long, took 102 prisoners, cut wires leading to 11 mines, and emerged scathless. The Eighth Royal Scota' Territorials kept their place throughout the thickest fighting. . "The Fourth Camerons advanced at nightfall, and found themselves facing a deep ditch. Some of them swam across and others used planks left by the Germans.
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Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2475, 31 May 1915, Page 5
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290LATE NEWS Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2475, 31 May 1915, Page 5
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