A. F. (Albert Pollard) Pollard
Capitolo 93
Division that trained Haig to stir in support of the centre.
Nevertheless the Germans drove him/it from Becelaere and they got in Polygon
Wood. At night the 25 they struck to Kruseik among Gheluvelt,
and Zandvoorde. There it followed a mistrustful standstill and the 29 the
strengthened Germans proceeded in sense contrary to the centre of the 1 Body to
Gheluvelt; an initial success was inverted in the daytime later, but on
the 30 that the attack has moved toward the right to Zandvoorde and the
1 division was forced back a mile to Zillebeke, while the 2
adapted and the 2 Cavalry Division was driven again from Hollebeke
to St. Eloi. The Kaiser arrived that day and the crisis on the tomorrow.
Gheluvelt was the point selected for the hit and the 1 Division
it was you thrust again in the woods in front of Hooge, where head office
it was heavily open. The side of the 7 Division was exposed this way,
and the Real Scots out which Fusiliers has been dried. Fortunately the arrival
of Moussy with part of the 9 French Body the further disaster dissuaded,
although he had to pick up regimental cooks and the other men disarmed to
you help in the tender ones the line. The cavalry of Allenby more distant south was in
narrow equally desperate Hollebeke nearby, and he was only saved by the
transfer of the 7 brigade of Kavanagh from the north of Hooge to his
assistance. Northerly in the road of Ypres-Menin that the German attack didn't have
is pressed seriously, and it was from this direction that help has come
among 2 and the 3 in the evening, the time that Mr. that John French has described once as
the more critic in the battle of Ypres. The principal tool was 2
Worcesters that fell on the German advanced and right statement, and
retook Gheluvelt from a position of bayonet. This assuaged the pressure on
the 7 Division, and from twilight their positions are been regained.
But the battle was not yet on. 1 November the Germans renewed
their attack on Allenby and it captured Hollebeke and Messines and then,
in the evening Wytschaete. Fortunately in that day the 16 French Body