The history of the South African forces in FranceBuchan, John
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The history of the South African forces in France
Buchan, John
South Africa. Army; World War, 1914-1918 -- Campaigns -- France; World War, 1914-1918 -- Regimental histories -- South Africa
Lieut.-Col. F. A. JONES; C.M.G., D.S.O. Killed.
Major D. M. MACLEOD Wounded.
” D. R. HUNT
Captain E. C. D. GRADY Wounded.
” T. H. ROSS
” C. M. BROWNE (Adjutant) Wounded.
” S. C. RUSSELL Died of wounds.
” W. ANDERSON Shell shock.
” G. E. W. MARSHALL Shell shock.
” F. MCE. MITCHELL Attached 26th Brigade.
Lieutenant A. M. CAMERON Wounded.
” J. L. SHENTON Wounded.
” H. M. NEWSON Prisoner.
” T. FARRELL Gassed.
” C. M. GUEST Staff.
” A. H. BROWN Killed.
” J. WATKINS Wounded.
” R. D. GRIERSON Gassed.
” W. MCLEAN Brigade Staff.
” A. S. TAYLOR Wounded.
” H. G. OUGHTERSON Killed.
” R. B. THORBURN Killed.
” G. SMITH Wounded.
” A. V. CHASE Wounded.
” J. S. FRY Killed.
” A. YOUNG, V.C. Wounded.
Sec.-Lieut. C. S. BELL Killed.
” D. ROSS Killed.
” W. H. KIRBY Wounded.
” C. A. A. MACLEAN Wounded.
” E. F. DALGETY
Q.M. and Hon. Lieut. Z. B. BAYLY.
_Attached._
Major M. B. POWER, S.A.M.C.
Chaplain and Captain S. THOMSON
CHAPTER IV.
THE BATTLE OF THE SOMME: THE BUTTE DE WARLENCOURT.
(July-December 1916.)
The Brigade attached to the First Army—In the Trenches at
Vimy—The Difficulties of the Later Stages of the Battle of
the Somme—The Country around The Butte de Warlencourt—The
Brigade enters the Line at Eaucourt l’Abbaye—The Attack of
12th October—The Capture of the Pimple—The Attack of 18th
October—The Fighting of the 18th and 19th—The Brigade withdrawn
to the Arras Area—General Lukin takes Command of the 9th
Division.
[Sidenote: _July 27._]
After the fight at Longueval and Delville Wood the 9th Division left the
Somme and was transferred from the XIII. Corps in the Fourth Army to the
IV. Corps, under Lieutenant-General Sir Henry Wilson, in Sir Charles
Monro’s First Army. The South African Brigade marched to Maricourt on
23rd July, where it entrained for Hengest, and on the 27th arrived in the
Frévillers area, north of the main road between Arras and St. Pol.
[Sidenote: _Aug. 11._]
[Sidenote: _Aug. 23._]
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