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	World War One Battlefields : Other Battlefields : Neuve Chapelle
		Neuve Chapelle was where the British started to learn the hard lessons that led to the practices undertaken in many if not all subsequent offensives.
		Neuve Chapelle is a small village located roughly midway between Bethune and Lille, and is around 20 miles south of Ypres.
		In the centre of Neuve Chapelle village is the church, and next to it the Marie.
	www.ww1battlefields.co.uk /others/neuve_chapelle_short.html (4833 words)

	World War One - Neuve Chapelle and War in Blood-Soaked Trenches
		Neuve Chapelle deserves particular mention as the test in which the British soldiers demonstrated their might in equal contest against the enemy.
		So ended Neuve Chapelle, a battle in which the decision rested with the British, a victory for which a fearful price had been paid but out of which came a confidence that was to hearten the British nation and to put sinews of steel into the British army for the dread days to come.
		The story of Neuve Chapelle was repeated in large and in miniature many times during the deadlock of trench warfare on the western front until victory finally came to the Allies.
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	First World War.com - Battles - The Battle of Neuve Chapelle, 1915
		Fought between 10-13 March 1915, the Battle of Neuve Chapelle was originally intended to comprise part of a wider Allied offensive in the Artois region.
		The decision to attack Neuve Chapelle, situated north of La Bassee and west of Lille in north-west France, was Sir John French's, Commander-in-Chief
		Whilst Neuve Chapelle was to form the initial target of the assault, French intended to capture the village at Aubers a mile to the east and to press the German defence of Lille.
	www.firstworldwar.com /battles/neuvechapelle.htm (540 words)

	Neuve Chapelle
		Neuve Chapelle was the first significant British assault on the Western front in 1915, planned to assist the French in their major offensive in the Lens/Vimy/Arras area.
		Neuve Chapelle is represented in Spearhead terms by a village outskirts, and is seen here on the table as the white building in the upper right of the photograph.
		Neuve Chapelle was occupied initially by a German MMG detachment, and the Corps headquarters.
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	Battle of Neuve Chapelle
		British forces launched an offensive in the Artois region and broke through at Neuve Chapelle in March 1915, but were unable to exploit the advantage.
		The battle of Neuve Chapelle was an action in which, through a surprise attack the British reconquered the position which the Germans had occupied in October and had powerfully organized in front of the British pivot at La Bassee.
		After the failure of the Battle of Neuve Chapelle, the British Commander-in-Chief Field Marshal Sir John French claimed that it failed due to a lack of shells.
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	First World War.com - Primary Documents - German Report of the Battle of Neuve Chapelle, 10-13 March 1915
		The battlefield of Neuve Chapelle and Givenchy - about 7 or 8 kilometres broad - is bounded on the north by the railroad Merville-Laventie-Armentieres, on the south by the Canal d'Aire a la Bassee and is crossed by two main highways, from Estaires to La Bassee, and from Bethune to Armentieres.
		The complete re-conquest, however, of the place Neuve Chapelle itself, which was constantly under heavy enemy fire, would have required needless sacrifices, and for this reason we limited ourselves to attaining the general lines previously held by us.
		But the great moral success of the fighting round Neuve Chapelle and round Givenchy lies in the repulse by comparatively weak German troops, of his attempt to break through which was undertaken with such great masses.
	www.firstworldwar.com /source/neuvechapelle_munsterberg.htm (1103 words)

	The Battle of Neuve Chapelle,
		The battle of Neuve Chapelle was an action in which, through a surprise attack.
		The position, however, remained in the possession of the British, although their opponents did all they could to recapture it -- a fact which when contrasted to the previous engagement makes it clear that the enemy was inferior both on the defense and the attack.
		The French offensive in Champagne, which synchronized with the battle of Neuve Chapelle, was a more lengthy and methodical affair; it had also a totally different object.
	net.lib.byu.edu /~rdh7/wwi/1915/neuvecha.html (488 words)

	The Battle of Neuve Chapelle
		Neuve Chapelle was the first large scale organised attack undertaken by the British Army during the war.
		Neuve Chapelle village lies on the road between Bethune, Fleurbaix and Armentieres, near its junction with the Estaires - La Bassee road.
		The main lessons of Neuve Chapelle: artillery bombardment too light to suppress the enemy trenches; too few good artillery observation points; reserves too few to follow up success quickly; command communications took too long and the means of communicating were too vulnerable.
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	Neuve-Chapelle
		The battle of Neuve Chapelle was an action in which, through a surprise attack.
		The French offensive in Champagne, which synchronized with the battle of Neuve Chapelle, was a more lengthy and methodical affair; it had also a totally different object.
		The Neuve Chapelle scenario is designed to be played from the German side as a solitaire game with the computer (French/British) set on the aggressive (red computer icon) selection.
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	Neuve Chapelle
		Now it was known to French and British Headquarters that the Prussian Guard had been holding the trenches at Neuve Chapelle village, a hundred miles to the north of the Champagne pine waste.
		At Neuve Chapelle was the Fourth British Army Corps; under Sir Henry Rawlinson, and the Indian Army Corps, under Sir James Willcox.
		At half-past seven in the morning of Wednesday, March 10th, the process of stopping German reinforcements to Hindenburg in East Prussia was continued at Neuve Chapelle, while the French at Perthes were still holding the enemy in increasing number.
	www.greatwardifferent.com /Great_War/British_Front/Neuve_Chapelle_01.htm (1974 words)

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	A.F. Pollard - A Short History Of The Great War - Chapter VII
		The point selected was Neuve Chapelle, a village at the foot of the Aubers ridge which guarded La Bassée to the south-west and Lille to the north-east.
		The moral indicated by the elaborate defences constructed by the Germans during the winter had been at any rate partially learnt, and the infantry attack on the morning of 10 March was preceded by an artillery preparation which set a new standard of destruction and was designed to obliterate trenches, barbed wire, and machine-gun positions.
		The lesson was that of Neuve Chapelle on a larger scale, and all the more impressive because of the careful preparations made for victory.
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	Neuve Chapelle
		Then the signal for the attack was given, and in less than half an hour almost the whole of the elaborate series of German trenches in and about Neuve Chapelle were in our hands.
		Except at one point there was hardly any resistance, for the trenches, which is places were literally blotted out, were filled with dead and dying partially buried in earth and debris, and the majority of the survivors were in no mood for further fighting.
		The fettered Press kept the world in the dark about it, and it was only through the long casualty lists that we are beginning to realise what it must have been.
	www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /FWWneuve.htm (658 words)

	The Battle of Neuve Chapelle - The First World War - 1915
		Still desperate to breakthrough the German lines and convinced that the war could be won relatively quickly a plan was formed that aimed to break through the German lines at Neuve Chapelle.
		The German front line was devastated and the four divisions of the British army quickly secured the objectives of taking the village of Neuve Chapelle.
		Communications broke down and the advance ground to a halt as commanders were uncertain of exactly what the situation on the front was.
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		HOMAGE TO THE FALLEN: Defence Minister Pranab Mukherjee pays respects to the 16,000 soldiers who died in France during the First World War, at the Indian Memorial in Neuve Chapelle, France, on Sunday.
		It was at Neuve Chapelle that the Indian Corps fought its first major battle from March 10-13, 1914, and lost one-fifth of its strength.
		Talking to correspondents before leaving for Neuve Chapelle, Mr.
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	8: Early Months
		Because it was believed at this time that the only method of fighting was to attack the enemy at her strongest point so as to destroy the bulk of her fighting forces, this was an unconventional attack.
		Rupert, the crown prince of Bavaria and commander of the sixth army in the Neuve Chapelle sector, made a desperate attempt to counterattack and recapture the village.
		But, just as with the British at Neuve Chapelle, by the time the Germans sent their second wave through the breach, the French brought up reinforcement and plugged the gap.
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	This Day in History 1915: Battle of Neuve Chapelle ends
		On this day in 1915, British forces end their three-day assault on the German trenches near the village of Neuve Chapelle in northern France, the first offensive launched by the British in the spring of 1915.
		The Battle of Neuve Chapelle began on March 10, 1915, at 8:05 a.m., when British forces attempted to break through the German trenches at Neuve Chapelle and capture the village of Aubers, less than a mile to the east.
		The Battle of Neuve Chapelle highlighted the primitive state of communications on the battlefield during World War I, which made it incredibly difficult for commanders on both sides to know where and when to effectively deploy their reserve troops.
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	Marne
		While the first wave of attack was successful (the village of Neuve Chapelle was reoccupied), the British failed to take out a small section of German trenches to the northeast, a garrison which was manned by two machine gun companies of the 11th Jaeger Battalion.
		Although they had lost their first line of defense, the Germans considered Neuve Chapelle a victory because of their success at holding their second line of defense and withstanding further British attacks after the initial breakthrough.
		London considered Neuve Chapelle a victory as well, although their main objective of breaking through to Lille and disrupting German lines of communication was not achieved.
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	Neuve Chappelle
		During the bombardment the Germans occupied some of the recently constructed machine-gun strongpoints (Stützpunkte) which were located 1,000 yards to the rear of their breastworks, and positioned 800 yards apart to cover much of the flat ground.
		As both Corps HQ were some 4 to 5 miles from Neuve Chapelle and separate from each other, up-to-dat e information took some time to reach the Corps Commanders, Rawlinson and Willcocks.
		a relatively small area, and the poor and confused communications, the Battle of Neuve Chapelle was nevertheless significant for it proved to the French that the British.
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	The Battle of Neuve Chapelle, (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The battle of Neuve Chapelle was an action in which, through a surprise attack.
		The position, however, remained in the possession of the British, although their opponents did all they could to recapture it -- a fact which when contrasted to the previous engagement makes it clear that the enemy was inferior both on the defense and the attack.
		The French offensive in Champagne, which synchronized with the battle of Neuve Chapelle, was a more lengthy and methodical affair; it had also a totally different object.
	www.lib.byu.edu /~rdh/wwi/1915/neuvecha.html (497 words)

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		When the battle of Neuve Chapelle had been fought, although its losses were heavy, there was no longer any doubt in the British nation that victory was only a question of time.
		[Illustration: THE BATTLE GROUND OF NEUVE CHAPELLE] The action came as a pendant to the attack by General de Langle de Cary's French army during February, 1915, at Perthes, that had been a steady relentless pressure by artillery and infantry upon a strong German position.
		The earthworks at Neuve Chapelle had been particularly depleted and only a comparatively small body of Saxons and Bavarians defended them.
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	Neuve Chapelle — East Surrey Regiment — March 1915 - Great War Forum (Site not responding. Last check: )
		From previous postings I now realise that my Great Uncle’s body was found (I have the ID tag) but he is now in an unmarked grave or buried near the trenches so it would be nice to know exactly where this would have been.
		He didn't die at Neuve Chapelle, but at a place you mention in the diary extract - Spanbroekmolen in the Ypres Salient in Belgium.
		Neuve Eglise was a pretty hot place at the time.
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		On October 7th, 1927, the Earl of Birkenhead, Secretary of State for India, unveiled the noble Memorial which has been erected by the Imperial War Graves Commission at Neuve Chapelle in France, to the memory of the Indian soldiers who fell on the Western Front in the Great War of 1914-1918.
		It is a tribute of special significance in that to build it the Dominions combined with India and the Mother Country, just as in the building of memorials to English, Scots, and Irish, Canadians, Australians, New Zealanders, South Africans, and Newfoundlanders, India took her part and paid her share of the cost.
		Neuve Chapelle - India's memorial in France 1914-1918.
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	Souvenir Editions of Illustrated London News (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The area selected was the German Salient which protruded round the village of Neuve Chapelle.
		A 3ft 4in centrepiece (the companion picture to the four page painting by R. Caton Woodville of the defeat of the Prussian Guard, given in the Great-War Deeds number), shows the whole panorama of the attack on Neuve Chapelle and the retreat of the Germans to the Bois de Biez.
		As a footnote it is worthwhile to say that the British failed to exploit the initial breakthrough and lost an estimated quarter of a million men.
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		Frontiers – Liège – Antwerp – Great Retreat – Race to the Sea – Neuve Chapelle – 2nd Ypres – 2nd Artois – Hill 70 – 3rd Artois – Loos –
		In 1915 all attempts to force a breakthrough—by the Germans at Ypres, by the British at Neuve Chapelle and by the French at Champagne—had failed, resulting only in terrible casualties.
		The German Chief of Staff, Erich von Falkenhayn, believed that although a breakthrough might no longer be possible, the French could still be defeated if they suffered sufficiently huge casualties.
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	A Soldier's Tale: Abert Money Wounded at Neuve Chapelle, March 10, 1915.
		The British attack at Neuve Chapelle (near Lille in in the Artois region of North-East France) was a major allied offensive.
		We were in in Richeborough St. Vaust close to Neuve Chapelle, all was very quiet.
		You would think there was not a hun within miles, but one of our planes went round within 800 yards, low down, and the Huns had a go at itwith rifles and machine guns.
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