8959 Private Charles Ponder D.C.M. The 13th Brigade from the 5th Division took over the sector previously held by the 83rd Brigade of the 28th Division. The village of St. Eloi itself and the Mound (an artificial heap of earth about 30 feet high and about half an acre in extent), about 200 yards south of the village centre were within the British lines, the German front line being about 500 yards from the village centre. The line held by the 28th Division was shortened early in March 1915 by the 27th Division taking over The Mound which remained until British mines blown on the 27th March 1916 eliminated it.The relatively quiet period lasted until the 14th March when the enemy opened a bombardment on the British position from the canal to St. Eloi and exploded a mine under the Mound at St. Eloi but with the exception of the Mound a gallant counter attack restored the position.At the beginning of April 1915 the relief of the Division from the Wulverghem Front was completed although both the 13th and 15th Brigades remained in the sector from East of the Mound at St. Eloi, by the Bluff, Hill 60 and Zwartelen to the western edge of Armagh Wood, about 800 yards North East of Zwartelen. As well the enemy artillery was very active using 5.9 or 8 inch howitzers and heavy trench mortars. The line taken over ran from the Mound at St. Eloi to the Bluff on the East side of the Ypres-Comines Canal and consisted mostly of breastworks, commanded by the enemy position at White Chateau south of the canal and The Bluff. There was no possibility of crossing the river and the Battalion was drawn further back at night on the 16th September.Troops had crossed at Bourg, Vailly and Missy and bridgeheads had been maintained to cover those towns and on the 24th September the 2nd Battalion relieved the Duke of Wellingtons north of the river in trenches near Missy, companies crossing by night by ferry at 2 hourly intervals. just states Trenches 21 and 22 were successfully taken and the 3rd K.R.R. began its first tour in the front-line trenches with little of moment, desultory firing took place at night and throughout the day intermittent shell-fire with the enemy introducing rifle grenades which were fired at night. The French trenches taken over were in an exceedingly poor state, both as regards protection and drainage and were far from a continuous line but were nothing more than a series of detached trenches with gaps of 30 to 50 yards between them and either no communication trenches or nothing but water-logged ditches in which water stood 2 feet deep.
On the 2nd September they moved on to Cuisy and on the 3rd September crossed the Marne River at Isles-les-Villenoy, going into billets at Couilly. Awarded the Victory and British War Medals and the 1915 Star.No. The Battalion was holding the front line in the New Farm area and did not participate in the counter attack.The 2nd Battalion the Gloucester Regiment remained in this sector until relief on the night of 23rd/24th March 1915. No blankets were taken to the trenches and the cooked rations when they came up at night from Vormezeele were because of the mud and dirt usually inedible. The Brigade was part of the 5th Division.The Battalion landed at Havre on the 16th August 1914, and by the 18th August was at Landrecies, crossing the frontier into Belgium on the 22nd August to hold the canal line at Mons on the 23rd August. The 8th and 9th January were spent in work and on the 10th the Brigade began the relief of the 80th Brigade in the front line. St. Julien Memorial (Belgium) In April, 1915, the allied forces had stopped the German advance, just outside Ypres (Ieper).
2783 Trooper Frank Edward Mills aged 23 years, Son of William and Emily Mills of 8 Burley Road, Sittingbourne, Kent.No. There were no dugouts, the bottom of the trenches was mud, the water in the rear trenches coming up to the knees and in the fire trench was waist deep, there was no possibility of movement in the trenches for these were barely 3 feet wide and with no where to put down a rifle and keep it dry so every rifle had to be held the whole of a 48 hour tour. In the period before the principal operation on the 31st July 1917 one of the infantry tasks was to obtain information as to the identification of the units holding the German lines and the extent to which the German front line was being held. held onto the recaptured trenches, the day being fairly quiet excepting that the enemy shelled the support area violently. Albert James was born in Cirencester in about 1892 the son of William James and Alice James of 181 Smerrill Cottages, Kemble, Cirencester, Gloucestershire. The canal was begun in 1864 but never completed and never used for shipping, the stagnant canal intersecting the front line in this sector. there was very heavy rifle-fire which lasted about 20 minutes: after that there was continual sniping all night. The eldest, Francis, was born in 1883. Husband of the Honourable Violet Ethel Meysey-Thompson daughter of 1st Baron Knaresborough now the Honourable Mrs. A. H. S. Howard Thornbury Castle Gloucestershire.No. The German Artillery was unfettered by ammunition constraints, the British artillery being limited to 3 rounds per day with even that not being fired. In December 1914 the Division marched from Winchester to Southampton for embarkation to France on a number of different vessels, disembarkation being completed by the 23rd December 1915. 2686 Trooper Sidney Ernest Sollars aged 28 years, Son of William and Mary Sollars of Uplands, Stroud, GloucesteshireNo.
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