The Irish Guards in the Great War (Complete Edition: Volume 1&2)

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Редьярд Джозеф Киплинг. The Irish Guards in the Great War (Complete Edition: Volume 1&2)

The Irish Guards in the Great War (Complete Edition: Volume 1&2)

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Table of Contents

The Irish Guards in the Great War – I

Introduction

Mons To La Bassée

La Bassée to Laventie

The Salient To The Somme

The Somme To Gouzeaucourt

Arras To The Armistice

The Irish Guards in the Great War – II

Loos And The First Autumn

Salient and the Somme

Rancourt to Bourlon Wood

Arras to the End

Appendix A

Appendix B

Appendix C

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Rudyard Kipling

Introduction

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Patrols, too, were elastic affairs. One of them, under Lieutenant R. H. Ferguson, went out on the night of the 21st, came on the enemy’s trenches half a mile out, lay down to listen to the conversation there, were all but cut off by a wandering section of snipers, and returned to their lines unmolested, after the lieutenant had shot the leading pursuer with his revolver.

On the 22nd September the Battalion—both entrenched and in reserve in the caves behind—experienced four hours’ high-explosive howitzer fire, which “except for the effect on the nerves did very little damage.” (They had yet to learn what continuous noise could do to break men’s nerve.) This was followed by a heavy fusillade, varied by star-shells, rockets, and searchlights, which lasted intermittently throughout the night. The rocket-display was new to the men. Searchlights, we know, they had seen before.

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