THE WEST SURREY REGIMENT.

Colonist, Volume LVI, Issue 13635, 25 November 1914, Page 5

THE WEST SURREY REGIMENT.

BRILLIANT BAYONET CHARGE

FIGHTING AGAINST GREAT ODDS

London, Nov. 23. The first battalion of West Surreys | at the end of October held a position in! Belgium for two days against great; odds. They were practically surround-.| ed and lost heavily. i The battalion made a brilliant bayon-! et oharge at Ypres. . • j German prisoners captured at thd; Somme state that the German officers,! in order to prove their zeal during the Kaiser's visit, increased the daily quota of 100 shells to 3000 in the 24 hours. The infantry were incited to attack villages, but failed ingloriously. \

Haggard, who was mortally wounded, to cover under a heavy rifle and machine gun fire. Captain Haggard wats a nephew of the novelist, Sir H. Rider Haggard.