Capture of Schwaben Redoubt: reference request

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Capture of Schwaben Redoubt: reference request

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Post by Attrition » 14 Sep 2014, 11:21

Does anyone have a page reference for this quotation please?

Schwaben Redoubt October 1916

The attack on the 14th was a soldier’s battle. At the beginning of the fight nearly all of the officers of the attacking companies were either killed or wounded, and it says much for the grit and endurance of the men that the 4/5th never wavered; it carried its attack forward with great gallantry and determination, hung on for hours under heavy German shell fire, repelled all enemy counter-attacks and, finally, having consolidated the captured position, handed it over intact to the relieving platoons of A company.


Wauchope, A. G. (1925). A History of The Black Watch in the Great War. London: The Medici Society Limited. ISBN 978-1843423713.

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Re: Capture of Schwaben Redoubt: reference request

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Post by Attrition » 03 Apr 2016, 01:10

Found it


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