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	Battle of Loos - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Battle of Loos was one of the major British offensives mounted on the Western Front in 1915 during World War I.
		The battle was the British component of the combined Anglo-French offensive known as the Second Battle of Artois.
		The battle opened on September 25 and the British were able to breakthrough the weaker German trenches and capture the town of Loos.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Battle_of_Loos (314 words)

	Loos
		are the names of 20,693 British soldiers who lost their lives in the Battle of Loos September-October 1915, and in the fighting on the Lys in April 1918, who have no known grave.
		Loos itself today presents a much cleaner aspect than the grimy mining community of 1914-15.
		The skyline is the gentle ridge on which was located the Loos Road Redoubt, through which the 15th (Scottish) Division advanced towards the village on 25th September 1915.
	www.1914-1918.net /sacredground/loos/loos.htm (574 words)

	Loos - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Adolf Loos an early 20th-century Viennese modernist architect.
		José Miguel García Loos a writer from Venezuela.
		In British English, Loo is another word for toilet.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Loos (110 words)

	First World War.com - Battles - The Battle of Loos, 1915
		The Battle of Loos formed a part of the wider Artois-Loos Offensive conducted by the French and British in autumn 1915, sometimes referred to as the Second Battle of Artois.
		He was much concerned at both a marked shortage in available shells (sparking the shell shortage scandal in Britain in 1915), and at the fatigued state of his troops; he was further concerned at the nature of the difficult terrain that would need to be crossed.
		It was during this battle Rudyard Kipling's son, John, was lost believed killed; the fact that he was listed as missing sparked a crusade by his parents to locate his body and give it a proper burial, without success.
	www.firstworldwar.com /battles/loos.htm (838 words)

	Battles
		From The Illustrated London News of October 30, 1915: a surreal depiction of the Battle of Loos, September-October, 1915.
		This artistic rendering is misleading (click here to read the text accompanying the illustration): the Battle of Loos was a slaughter of British troops — a foreshadowing of the Somme a year later — where the combination of machine guns in defensive positions, fronted by barbed wire proved devastating to infantry.
		Graves remarked that the only significant result of the Battle of Loos was that it cost the life of one of the three greatest poets to be killed in the war, Charles Sorley (Graves considered Wilfred Owen and Isaac Rosenberg the other two).
	www.lib.byu.edu /~english/WWI/historical/Battles.html (749 words)

	Bass C W (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Bass was to be killed in the battle of Loos, September 1915.
		Over 8,000 men were killed or wounded at the Battle of Loos: Charles William Bass was one of them.The initial bombardment covered a front of almost seven miles and some 10,000 British troops were involved in the action, which lasted for nearly three weeks.
		The first day of the battle, 25th September, saw a number of territorial gains along the length of the front, but consolidation was called for as the Germans began to mount a number of counterattacks.
	greatwar1914-1918.freeservers.com /Bass.htm (1262 words)

	Loos British Cemetery, Pas-de-Calais (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Loos (Loos-en-Gohelle) is a village to the north of the road from Lens to Bethune.
		LOOS (FORT GLATZ) GERMAN CEMETERY, named from a German strong point at the North-West corner of the village, and containing the graves of three soldiers from the United Kingdom who fell in the summer of 1915.
		Went to France July 1915 and was killed in action at the Battle of Loos in Sept. During the attack in which he met his death Sgt Macculloch was acting as Lt., in command of the 3rd platoon of his Bn.
	www.silentcities.co.uk /cemeteryl/Loos%20British%20Cemetery,%20Pas-de-Calais.htm (1464 words)

	Quincy Herald-Whig
		Loos has discovered the deepest meaning of unconditional love, watched the truest display of friendship unfold and felt a sense of family he never knew existed.
		The battle against testicular cancer was eventually won, but shortly afterward Dale was diagnosed with acute myeloid leukemia, which in layman's terms is cancer of the blood.
		Loos explained that when you are in the department, you are like family.
	www.whig.com /281962287448050.php (1629 words)

	Battle of Loos Photos 1915
		This famous landmark was in the 47th (London) Division area of advance during the battle.
		The Loos area was a coal mining region with many mines; the pitheads were called 'Fosse' in French and numbered.
		The chateau was used as an Advanced Dressing Station during the Battle of Loos.
	battlefields1418.50megs.com /loos_photos.htm (555 words)

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		Loos (or Loos-en-Gohelle) is a mining village and commune three miles north-west of Lens in the Department of the Pas-de-Calais.
		The great majority of the dead buried here fell in the Battle of Loos, 1915; but some were killed in succeeding years.
		The regimental memorials brought to the cemetery include those of the 10th Scottish Rifles and the 17th London Regiment, dating from the Battle of Loos, and those of the Royal Montreal Regiment and the Royal Highlanders of Canada, dating from the Battle of Hill 70 in August, 1917.
	www.irishsoldier.org /dud.html (411 words)

	Document sans-titre
		Took part in the capture of the village of Loos.
		Battle of the Pilckem ridge : faced a strong German counter-attack on 1st August along the railway Ypres-Roulers.
		Battle of Langemarck : unsuccessful attacks on Gallipoli.
	pipersmemorial.ifrance.com /gordon8gb.htm (161 words)

	First World War
		Report by Major-General Forester-Walker on operations of the 21st Division at the Battle of Loos, 25-27 September 1915.
		The Battle of Loos (25 September-8 October 1915) was a largely unsuccessful British offensive against German lines north-west of Lens.
		While a number of extenuating circumstances are pointed out (including exhaustion and the loss of large numbers of officers in battle), it also asserts that certain units 'did not behave with credit'.
	www.nationalarchives.gov.uk /pathways/firstworldwar/first_world_war/p_loos.htm (113 words)

	The Battle of Loos 1915
		The Loos battlefield lies immediately north of the mining town of Lens, in the heart of the industrial area of north-east France.
		Embarrassed at how late is their arrival at the battle front, he is forced to deploy the two Divisions piecemeal to support the units already in action.
		Another heavy German attack against the 7/Royal Scots Fusiliers, on the Eastern side of the Loos Crassier, was repulsed with the assistance of the 11th Motor Machine-Gun Battery.
	www.1914-1918.net /BATTLES/bat13_loos/bat.htm (10427 words)

	FIELDS OF DEATH. Battle Scenes of the First World War - SLOWE, PETER & WOODS, RICHARD (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		LOOS-ARMENTIERES = Battle of Armentieres (1914), Plugstreet (1914), Battle of Neuve Chapelle (1915), Battle of Loos (1915), Cuinchy (1916), Lens (1917) and Battle of the River Lys (1918).
		ARRAS = The Battle for Vimy Ridge (1916), Battle of Arras (1917), Avion (1917) and German Spring Offensive (1918).
		SOMME = Battle of the Somme (1916), Guillemont (1916), Martinpuich (1916), Near Lesboeufs (1916), Battle of Villers-Bretonneux (1918), German Spring Offensive (1918), Rossignol Wood (1918) and Battle of Amiens (1918).
	antiqbook.com /boox/dmd/25102.shtml (365 words)

	2nd Battalion Border Regiment -- John Peel (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		In addition to artillery, General Haig was allowed the use of chorine gas to offset the shortage of artillery shells, and Loos became the first battle in which the British would use poison gas.
		After the battle, the French lost control of the British forces and General Haig became Commander in Chief of the British Army.
		Months later, after attending a lecture on the battle of Loos, a young Winston Churchill (who was made a battalion commander in 1916) wrote "They asked what was the lesson of [the battle of Loos].
	www.ballindalloch-press.com /2ndborder/loos.html (434 words)

	Battle of Loos 1915 - Loos Battlefield
		It was at Loos that for the first time large numbers of men from Kitchener's Army - the wartime volunteers of 1914 - would fight and die in a major battle.
		It was a battle that would consume senior officers, war poets, sons of the gentry and public figures, and thousands of humble Tommies who felt this might be the 'Big Push' which would break the stranglehold of trench warfare.
		Today Loos is a 'forgotten battlefield' and as we remember 90 years on, the Old Front Line is pleased to devote part of the site to this important sector in the British line.
	battlefields1418.50megs.com /loos.htm (196 words)

	The Battle of Loos (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		They describe our bombardment as "unspeakable" and say the first thing they knew about the assault was the appearance of lines of British troops streaming away over their trenches to the right and, the next moment, the inrush of a horde of khaki-clad figures upon their trenches from three sides.
		Few actions aroused more criticism at the time than the battle of Loos, but it is certain that The Black Watch, with other units of its Division, had once again given the enemy a proof of their spirit.
		General Capper of the 7th Division, who was killed at Loos, used to say: "We are here to do the impossible." In that temper the Battalion had gone into battle; it came out of action with spirit unsubdued.
	www.mercermillions.co.uk /misc/battle_of_loos.htm (1005 words)

	The Battle of Loos (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		On the right the village of Loos was overrun and the suburbs of Lens were reached; the First Army also had some success in the centre, but on the right, on either side of the La Bassée canal, there was complete failure.
		The failure at Loos led to the downfall of Sir John French later in the year.
		His relationship with Haig, the man who was to replace him, was undermined by his delay in releasing reserves during the battle, French compounded the error by misrepresenting the time at which he had actually handed them over to Haig.
	www.westernfrontassociation.com /thegreatwar/articles/timeline/loos.htm (431 words)

	1st Battalion Middlesex Regiment:- The Battle of Loos
		When dawn broke on the morning of 25th it seemed as if the elements had again conspired to make the attack abortive, for heavy rain fell and the wind, what there was of it, shifted almost continually; it was a bad day for the projection of gas.
		From the official despatches it is clear that whereas the southern portion of the initial attack from Loos, northwards to the neighbourhood of Fosse 8, had gained ground, north of the latter point to the La Bassée Canal and just beyond it from the Givenchy front, no progress had been made.
		The main operations of the Battle of Loos ended on 8th October, but meanwhile subsidiary attacks had been made by the Vth Corps on the Bellewaarde Ridge, east of Ypres, and by the 3rd and Indian Corps north of the La Bassée Canal and along the whole front of the Second Army.
	freespace.virgin.net /howard.anderson/loos.htm (1827 words)

	The 10th Battalion Green Howards (1914 - 1918) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The Battalion was marched up to Loos on the same day and in the afternoon were in the front line for the first time.
		Just in time for the Battle of the Somme which began on the 1 July 1916.Prior to the Battle they were in the general area of the front line and were subject to attack by the Germans.
		This was one the objectives set and part of the overall battle for Passchendaele.The strength of the battalion at this time was 37 Officers and 966 men.
	website.lineone.net /~d.ord (7080 words)

	Document sans-titre
		Battle of Aubers.(9 May) Starting from Blackadder Trench and Crescent Trench, the bataillon attacked openly and lost 160 men, mostly at the beginning of assault.
		Battle of Neuve-Chapelle (10-12 March) In support, lost 90 men.
		Attacked during the first day of the battle (31 July).
	pipersmemorial.ifrance.com /black4gb.htm (140 words)

	The National Archives \| Exhibitions & Learning online \| First World War \| 1914-1918
		Loos (25 September-8 October), however, British troops were decimated by German machine-gun fire and suffered heavy losses.
		Report (with maps and a photograph) on the Battle of Loos, Sep 1915.
		Reports by the 24th Division on the Battle of Loos, Oct 1915.
	www.nationalarchives.gov.uk /pathways/firstworldwar/first_world_war/german_ascendancy.htm (498 words)

	John Halling
		The Loos Memorial forms the side and back of Dud Corner Cemetery where over 1,700 officers and men are buried, the great majority of whom fell in the Battle of Loos.
		The Loos Memorial commemorates over 20,000 officers and men who fell in the area from the River Lys to the old southern boundary of the First Army, east and west of Grenay, and who have no known grave.
		It covers the period from the first day of the Battle of Loos to the date of the Armistice.
	pages.britishlibrary.net /mikepymm/new_page_20.htm (233 words)

	Big Battle Information (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		For the first Big Battle we settled on the action (The Marne September 7 1914) and finalised the table sizes (12x5 for the action on the Ourcq and 6x5 for the BEF on the Petit Morin).
		This battle is interesting as the first use of gas in an attack by the British Army and for the relative success of the attack.
		The British forces for Loos comprise 6 divisions in two Corps with 48 battalions in the first line and 24 in the second line plus supporting artillery.
	pages.zdnet.com /sfclarke/id8.html (414 words)

	Loos - September 1915
		The Battle of Loos formed part of the allied offensive in the west in the autumn of 1915 and was the most ambitious attempt made up to that time.
		The main assault at Loos was fought with the main objective being the mining centre of Lens.
		My reference book gives the date for the onset of the official Battle as 25th September, though clearly the massed troops were already involved in skirmishes for the diary records on 24th September that "A good number of wounded arrived through the day".
	freepages.military.rootsweb.com /~hoddy/loos.htm (426 words)

	Battle of the Boyne, 12 July 1690
		The battle actually took place on 1 July, but because of the conversion from the Julian to the Gregorian calendar the day is now commemorated on the 12 July.
		No Irish battle is as celebrated as William's victory at the River Boyne.
		There was no battle and the two armies dug in for the winter.
	sinclair.quarterman.org /history/mod/battleoftheboyne.html (715 words)

	Account of the Battle of Loos from "The Western Front" by Richard Holmes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		If he put IX Corps at Haig's disposal from the outset, there was always the risk that Haig would commit it to battle come what may: French wanted to be sure that the gap really was there before Haking's green troops were shoved into it.
		The Terriltorials of 47th London Division took the southern part of Loos, and another Territorial division, 15th Scottish, poured through Loos itself, encouraged by the shriek of the pipes as several pipers risked the gas to play their comrades into battle.
		The Guards Division went into action to stabilize the situation, and in the fighting north of Loos Rudyard Kipling's only son John, a lieutenant in the Irish guards, was reported missing, belived killed.
	www.colson.uklinux.net /ww1/psmith/bbcbattleofloos.htm (1474 words)

	The Battle of Loos, 1915 - The Hohenzollern Redoubt (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Dud Corner Cemetery and the Loos Memorial to the "Missing" lies on the Lens to Béthune road.
		A large concentration cemetery it takes its name from the exceptional number of dud shells fired on that spot during the Battle of Loos.
		The cemetery itself records 1,772 UK and 28 Canadian burials while The Loos Memorial records 20,693 "Missing" who fell in the Battle of Loos, September and October 1915 and at Lys, Estaires and Béthune, 1918.
	www.harboro.ndirect.co.uk /loos.htm (256 words)

	Contemporary account of the Battle of Loos from the Royal West Kent Regiment (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The officers had already been told that they were going into the biggest battle the world had ever known, and where also told that their role would be to march through to Douai and hold it, a task which was considerably modified before we actually reached the battle.
		The Battle of Loos was now in full swing, and many prisoners and wounded were coming down from the line, but no very definite information could be got from them.
		The enemy brought a very heavy rifle, machine-gun, and artillery fire to bear on the attacking lines, and shortened his range to keep pace with the advance with wonderful precision ; but the casualties up to this point, though severe, were not inordinately heavy.
	www.colson.uklinux.net /ww1/psmith/battleofloos.HTM (1195 words)

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