{"id":329,"date":"2022-07-17T10:35:35","date_gmt":"2022-07-17T10:35:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theriflesww1.org\/?page_id=329"},"modified":"2022-07-17T13:14:52","modified_gmt":"2022-07-17T12:14:52","slug":"british-infantry-tactics-1915","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/theriflesww1.org\/index.php\/british-infantry-tactics-1915\/","title":{"rendered":"British Infantry Tactics. 1915"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The Battle of Loos September 25th-October 10th 1915<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As the British part of Third Battle of Artois<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Second Battle of Champagne<\/a>, the Battle of Loos cost the British Expeditionary Force (BEF) 48,367\u00a0casualties in the main attack\u00a0and\u00a0they suffered\u00a010,880 more\u00a0in the subsidiary attack, a total of\u00a059,247 losses\u00a0of the\u00a0285,107 British\u00a0casualties on the Western Front in 1915. \u00a0\u00a0
At Batemans, the East Sussex country home of Rudyard Kipling,on a date near the 100th Anniversary of the battle, The Rifles undertook training exercises to recreate the section advance (rush) infantry attacks employed by the BEF.
The battle was the first occasion the British used poison gas(Chlorine) on the Western Front. Attacking divisions were given, by late war standards,only the basic training for the use of the new tube hoods (PH), however some of the more experienced soldiers thought it worhwhile to roll these hoods up for better vision during the latter stages of the attack.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Battle of Loos September 25th-October 10th 1915 As the British part of Third Battle of Artois\u00a0and\u00a0Second Battle of Champagne,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-329","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theriflesww1.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/329","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theriflesww1.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theriflesww1.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theriflesww1.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theriflesww1.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=329"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/theriflesww1.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/329\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":412,"href":"https:\/\/theriflesww1.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/329\/revisions\/412"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theriflesww1.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}