"LIKE A HUMAN AVALANCHE": A FURIOUS CHARGE OF IRISH TROOPS AT THE TAKING OF GUILLEMONT. "The Irish regiments which took part in the capture of Guillemont/'. said an official despatch thj.greatest dash and gantry andl tool:,o small share „ the success £»-*£ particular incident here illustrated, the sender of the sketch from which the drawing was made writes. At Xced on the parapet But I company of Irish-tall, swarthy men-rushed the position with a yell, bayoneted the Lid up the advance with a machine gun. which was at the last moment hauled up from some and ptaced or the ™* German officers wounded two and killed one man with his Browning pistol before anachine-gunners, and captured the trench after a tough hand-to-hand scrap, in which bayonet, but t. fist were lieei y used Une ortne uei w«n b ed three in id succession and remained himself he was overpowered. Four officers were found in this short length of trench, whehmy ueoutte " weapons Gibbs writes of the Irish at Guil'.emont: "Their charge through Guillemont. untouched. The German barrage, then opened, and entrenching tools had . . . was one of the most astonishing SKtd ahead. 'lt was like a human avalanche.'"-From Illustrated London News.

Otago Witness, Issue 3274, 13 December 1916, Page 29 (Supplement)

"LIKE A HUMAN AVALANCHE": A FURIOUS CHARGE OF IRISH TROOPS AT THE TAKING OF GUILLEMONT. "The Irish regiments which took part in the capture of Guillemont/'. said an official despatch thj .greatest dash and gantry andl tool :,o small share „ the success £»-*£ particular incident here illustrated, the sender of the sketch from which the drawing was made writes. At Xced on the parapet But I company of Irish-tall, swarthy men-rushed the position with a yell, bayoneted the Lid up the advance with a machine gun. which was at the last moment hauled up from some and ptaced or the ™* German officers wounded two and killed one man with his Browning pistol before anachine-gunners, and captured the trench after a tough hand-to-hand scrap, in which bayonet, but t. fist were lieei y used Une ortne uei w«n b ed three in id success i o n and remained himself he was overpowered. Four officers were found in this short length of trench, whehmy ueoutte " weapons Gibbs writes of the Irish at Guil'.emont: "Their charge through Guillemont. untouched. The German barrage, then opened, and entrenching tools had . . . was one of the most astonishing SKtd ahead. 'lt was like a human avalanche.'"-From Illustrated London News.