A BRANDENBURG DIVISION PRACTICALLY WIPED OUT
(eeoter's tkleoram.) (Received August 27, 8.40 a.m.) LONDON, 26th August. Keuter's correspondent at French Headquarters, writing in connection with the capture of Hill 304, says : "Tho 6th Brandenburg Reserve Division was practically wiped out. Sixty-nine officers and 2794 men of its three regiments were made prisoner, well over a third of its entire bayonet strength. "The prisoners include a whole divisional organisation, with cooks and cyclists, and even the band, the members of which were sent to the front «t J3or>£>e Hill as fiehtine men."
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Evening Post, Volume XCIV, Issue 49, 27 August 1917, Page 7
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91A BRANDENBURG DIVISION PRACTICALLY WIPED OUT Evening Post, Volume XCIV, Issue 49, 27 August 1917, Page 7
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