The Aisne Battles

The Aisne Battles 1914-1918. The Chemin des Dames, the Aisne and Marne. Occasionally Flanders and the Somme.

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The story of British and French armies in retreat during May -June 1918 -the longest one day advance on the WF

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A scene of utter devastation- the wilderness of the Chemin des Dames ridge (Winterberg) May 1918.

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Captured German A7V - ‘Nixe II’ knocked out on 31 May 1918 (not 28 May as stated) near Pierquin Ferme, just tothe north of Reims. photograph by Marcel Delboy.

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William 'Tommy' Fiske Blackpool FC goalkeeper was killed on the Aisne 27 May 1918 with the Border Regiment.

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Origin grave marker of Captain Francis Grenfell VC, at Vlamertinge, 1915

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Bedford House Cemetery

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Casualty Evacuation Chain Graphic [ The Sphere, 1915 ]

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Excellent large map of the British Sector Aisne, September 1914. [ War Diary 11 Field Company, Royal Engineers]

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* the first article appeared in May 1915, not May 1914 as stated.

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This is the first article of a British Dressing Station published in the British Medical Journal in May 1914. The DS was in caves near Troyon just under the Chemin des Dames and date from September 1914. Page 1

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This is the first page commentary on the article by Captain Ward that appeared Royal Medical Journal in 2013- by Jonathan Swan. Sadly I do not have the other pages of this article. If anyone knows how I can get hold of the rest, please let me know.

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@historian1914 @Blanch6144 @policybloke Just briefly read this thesis concerned with 1st Ypres- very good.

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Map of the 2 Kings Royal Rifle Corps attack from on the Sugar Factory on the Chemin des Dames, from Troyon on 14th September 1914.

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Found, am official description of how trenches should be constructed in the war diary of the 3rd Brigade- October 1914.

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So in effective is this one of the earliest blueprints for trench construction on the Western Front, on the Aisne in 1914?

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Actually what’s even more interesting - following on from my last tweet- that this is the first page of a number of documents about trenches and wire entanglements that is from early October when the Bde was on the Aisne at Vendresse when the first trenches were dug…/1

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This is perhaps the most interesting document outling how some of the first trenches dug on the Western Front on the Aisne should be constructed- short sections of trench for 7 to 14 men connected by communication trenches between and how dugouts should be made [3rd Brigade WD]

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Just an average day in #Bradford 😍