BRITISH HEROISM.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LII, Issue 15932, 1 June 1915, Page 8

BRITISH HEROISM.

DEEDS AT FESTUBERT.

MONUMENT OF CORPSES. (Received May 31. I.S am.) London, May 30. A with the British headquarters details among the gallant deeds at Festubert a brilliant dash by the Welsh Fusiliers. German artillery plastered the Welshmen with high explosives. Nevertheless company after company reached the captured trenches. A party of Welshmen rushed another trench. Although only four bombthrowers were left they bombed the Germans out of a cottage and held the advanced post until ordered to retire in the evening.

Sergeant Barter, of the Welsh Fusiliers, went out on the 16th with seven bomb-throwers and bombed a number of German trenches, occupying one 500 yds long. They took 102 prisoners, cut 11 mines, and returned scatheless.

The Eighth Royal Scots Territorials kept their place throughout tho thickest fighting. The Fourth Camerons advanced at nightfall and found themselves facing a deep ditch. Some swam and others used planks left by the Germans.

The Germans throughout shelled the Highlanders from houses near by. One company lost its direction. Another was virtually destroyed. All the officers were killed. 'One"company struggled on and captured tho rearmost German communication trench. The Warwicks Border Legiment, the Gordon Highlanders, the Liverpools, the Inniskillings, and the bomb-throwers belonging to the Grenadiers all performed great deeds.