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Fife and Drum

Touchstone, 1915

Named on the page for Battle of Neuve Chapelle.

machine-read Machine-read (OCR) from a scanned book at the Internet Archive: expect misread words and names. The scan itself is at the library.

draft Matched to the battle automatically; not yet reviewed.

Passages that name the battle; the whole collection is at Internet Archive.

10–13 March 1915

Battle of Neuve Chapelle

THE BATTLE OF THE DINNER HOUR.

THE BATTLE OF THE DINNER HOUR.

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Vide “ Eye-Witness’s ” Account of the
Fight at Neuve Chapelle.

WE had give the Bosches hell
With our high explosive shell,
And our shrapnel and our Maxims and the rest
of it.
We had got ’em fairly done,
And they had to turn and run, /
For the little British Army had the best of it.

Public domain. Text from Internet Archive.