. The Grenadier guards in the great war of 1914-1918. ing wave of men was able to get closeup under our creeping barrage, and the IrishGuards found no difficulty in capturing the firstobjective at the point of the bayonet. The 2ndBattahon Grenadiers would have had an equally 80 THE GRENADIER GUARDS c=^. sin^ple tasU but for the tact that tV^^ire in front XIX. of them, which was m standing crops di .77., Le h«en, had been ^^y^^J^^ gP ; artillery Are. T^ere ^^™~ f^„Zm so close, SSrionilt^t whole advance of the -e-i;erTi:;:fe:rt:.^n^^^^ S;n!rPar„errr:\med, and Lieutenant l^ieutendiiL u,,
. The Grenadier guards in the great war of 1914-1918. ing wave of men was able to get closeup under our creeping barrage, and the IrishGuards found no difficulty in capturing the firstobjective at the point of the bayonet. The 2ndBattahon Grenadiers would have had an equally 80 THE GRENADIER GUARDS c=^. sin^ple tasU but for the tact that tV^^ire in front XIX. of them, which was m standing crops di .77., Le h«en, had been ^^y^^J^^ gP ; artillery Are. T^ere ^^™~ f^„Zm so close, SSrionilt^t whole advance of the -e-i;erTi:;:fe:rt:.^n^^^^ S;n!rPar„errr:\med, and Lieutenant l^ieutendiiL u,,i-cufficient room was made ?:rr rnToto^Sf la the Grenadier. Apparently r ^..^^^ ^^^ „„j ^™r isoS whne three maehine-guns tellto ^^r haSr L utenant H. Wiggins, who wasTthe extreme right, was trying to ereep downthe fl e swe^Sunken road when he was struckthe hre swep j^^^^^ ^^^^ him. ^^ ^T„^Knatchbu -Hugessen brought up theLieutenant K^^t^M J ^^ ^„d did greatLewis guns by Jhesun^e ^^.^^ ^.^^^^._^^ rifhl guns though wounded and covered. ^Mcif^-ff€.-vi€,rul.^).^ji:e^r^. GJl.(^. THE BATTLE OF THE SOMME 81 v^itix blood when a shell pitched on the road near ^him and killed him. xix. By the first objective was entirely in our 2„7^, and five minutes later the advance to f^?*the second objective began, close up under ourbarrage. This was a complete success, as thebarrage kept the enemy in their trenches, andthey had not even shown themselves when theGrenadiers and Irish Guards were on them withthe bayonet. After the capture of the first objective therewere only two company officers left. Lieutenant and Second Lieutenant Layland-Barratt, and the attack on the second objectivewas practically carried out by the non-commis-sioned officers. Never have the sergeants ofthe regiment showed to better advantage. Theskill with which they handled their companies orplatoons, their quick grasp of an order conveyedto them, and the inteUigent
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