DIED WITH THEIR DOG.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 14054, 26 July 1916, Page 5

DIED WITH THEIR DOG.

i» ... GALLANT MANCHESTER 3^EN. . MOWED BY MACHINE-GUNS. (From Captain C. E. Bean, Australian! Press Representative.) British Western Front, July 4. "£' cannot> leave the great battlefield of the River Somme without making some refeire'nce to the fact that'/ tlte : army- which is fighting it ia, to a greatextent, a ., new army. Many of. -these', new corps have, since the fighting started v won themselves fame whichi -will last as long as their country's history. Amongst other troops m the German army against them is the reserve division of the Prussian Guards. ■ "The new army is fighting, side by, side with the oldest and most famous regiments of the British Army. Aa officer told me to-day that he had been over ground where one of the new army regiments, a battalion of Mancheßters, attacked yesterday. They advanced over the open under a mixed rifle and, machine-gun and shrapnel fire, very similar to that through which the : 2nd Australian Brigade atf* ■Cape Hell es. The whole "course 6f the attack 'through the" Ibtt'g grass' '•Wai-sfiM? marked with them. One little, group of half ia-d'o^e^ 1 lAferi;" wii>tt M th^ i i«eginieTStTfl f dog, were still lying' together, where" some machine-gun caught, them. Every man was dead. But after a long advance they won their trench, and the Germans lying, killed amongst them; showed 'how* fierce was the fight wherein they fell." " „ .-..,, „ -