Tag Archive for Robert Graves

DISASTER AT LOOS

British Ranks Devastated; Victims of Own Gas. A Blatant, Needless Massacre. Special to The Great War Project (26-28 September) Day by day, the terrible scale of the British losses in the Battle of Loos in northern France is beginning to sink in. On September 25th a century ago 10,000 British troops are ordered to walk…

TURKS INTRODUCE BATTLEFIED INNOVATION – SNIPING

Invisible Killers Terrorize Allied Troops; Stories of Female Snipers Improbable but Persistent Special to The Great War Project (7-9 June) The Turks introduce a new tactic into the butchery on the Gallipoli Peninsula – sniping. It may be difficult to believe a century later, but according to historian Eugene Rogan… …“at first the Allied troops…