Sixteenth, Seventeenth, Eighteenth, Nineteenth Battalions, the Manchester Regiment (First City Brigade): A Record, 1914-1918 |
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Page 65 - Throughout the day Lieut.-Colonel Elstob, although twice wounded, showed the most fearless disregard of his own safety, and by his encouragement and noble example inspired his command to the fullest degree. The Manchester Redoubt was surrounded in the first wave of the enemy attack, but by means of the buried cable Lieut.-Colonel Elstob was able to assure his Brigade Commander that ' The Manchester Regiment will defend Manchester Hill to the last.
Page 65 - During the preliminary bombardment he encouraged his men in the posts in the Redoubt by frequent visits and when repeated attacks developed controlled the defence at the points threatened, giving personal support with revolver, rifle and bombs. Singlehanded he repulsed one bombing assault, driving back the enemy and inflicting severe casualties. Later, when ammunition was required he made several journeys under severe fire in order to replenish the supply. "Throughout the day Lieut.-Colonel Els.tob,...
Page 51 - At about 11 o'clock Colonel Elstob informed me that the Germans had broken through and were swarming round the redoubt. At about 2 PM he said that most of his men were killed or wounded, including himself ; that they were all getting dead beat, that the Germans had got into the redoubt and hand-to-hand fighting was going on. He was still quite cheery. At 3.30 he was spoken to on the telephone and said very few were left and that the end was nearly come. After that no further answer could be got.
Page 32 - Manchesters were not more fortunate. They got into the village on the extreme north, and found themselves in touch with the 17th Royal Fusiliers of the Second Division ; but neither Battalion could make good its position. It was one of the tragic episodes of the great Somme Battle.
Page 15 - Enormous armies were facing each other, but, until the German attack upon the French lines of Verdun at the end of February, the Infantry of neither side was seriously engaged.
Page 301 - Yorkshires losing direction to the east and sweeping in upon the ground already held by the 2nd Royal Scots and other battalions of the 8th Brigade. The resistance shown by Guillemont proved that the siege of that village would be a serious operation and that it was not to be carried by the coup-de-main'oi a tired division, however valiantly urged.
Page 65 - Some time after this poet was overcome by vastly superior forces, and this very gallant officer was killed in the final assault, having maintained to the end the duty which he had impressed on his men — namely, ' Here we fight and here we die.' He set throughout the highest example of valour, determination, endurance, and fine soldierly bearing." After one o'clock, when the fog cleared away, airmen on both sides became very active. Our own, as usual, were very brave...
Page 230 - Brigade, in the meantime, had to pass a great deal of difficult woody ground and met so much opposition that they lost the barrage, that best friend of the stormer. Bodmin Copse was reached, but few penetrated to the eastern side of it. The strong point of Stirling Castle was, however, taken by the Manchesters of the goth.
Page 230 - Division, which consisted, as will be remembered, to a large extent of ' Pal ' Battalions from Liverpool and Manchester, advanced to the south of the Eighth. Sanctuary Wood and other strong points lay in front of the 9oth and 2ist Brigades, which provided the first line of stormers.
Page 230 - ... during the rest of the day. In the initial advance the 2nd Scots Fusiliers, that phoenix of a battalion, so often destroyed and so often renewed, wandered in the dusk of the morning away from its allotted path and got as far north as Chateau Wood in the path of the 24th Brigade. This caused some dislocation of the front line, but the Manchester...