AN AWFUL TASK.
A.TEH DAYS’ FIGH r . ATTACKED BY EHDBMODS ODDS. TERRIBLY DECIMATED FORCE. Loudon. Dec. L Lieut. ‘Aubrey Fletcher ot the Grenadier Guards, who was wounded, lias returned to England. He relates that his division of 15 000 was ordered to hold a front of eight miles at all .costs till reinforced. We were faced by about 75,000 of the enemy, including tome of the Kaiser’s crack regiments. The Germans occasionally broke through by sheer weight oi numbers, but were always driven back. We held them for ten days, when help came. Of the 15,000 Guards only , 7800 remained. His own battalion of a thousand lost £OO man, and 28 out of ISO officers.
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Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXIX, Issue 11114, 2 December 1914, Page 5
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115AN AWFUL TASK. Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXIX, Issue 11114, 2 December 1914, Page 5
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