' ' 'm "i m'"■■ ■ ■ 1 J. BRITISH POSITIONS ALONG AUBERS RIDGE, The position along the British front offers some very interesting points. The uneven appearance of the fighting line as it zigzags from point to point is reallv due to the fact that the ground was won not as the result of one huge bound forward but, rather, owing to the joining of a series of salients formed at various times The fighting around Aubers and Fromelles to the north developed into a'struggle tor possession of the Aubers ridge, a marked range running parallel to the British lmes. Farther to the south the advance trom Festubert has caused a bulge in the line which extends as far as the outskirts of Rue d'Ouvert.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 11504, 28 September 1915, Page 1
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122' ' 'm "i m'"■■ ■ ■ 1 J. BRITISH POSITIONS ALONG AUBERS RIDGE, The position along the British front offers some very interesting points. The uneven appearance of the fighting line as it zigzags from point to point is reallv due to the fact that the ground was won not as the result of one huge bound forward but, rather, owing to the joining of a series of salients formed at various times The fighting around Aubers and Fromelles to the north developed into a'struggle tor possession of the Aubers ridge, a marked range running parallel to the British lmes. Farther to the south the advance trom Festubert has caused a bulge in the line which extends as far as the outskirts of Rue d'Ouvert. Star (Christchurch), Issue 11504, 28 September 1915, Page 1
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