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    The Battle of Aubers (Battle of Aubers Ridge) was a British offensive on the Western Front on 9 May 1915 during the First World War. The battle was part...
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    the site of a major World War I battle, the Battle of Aubers, during 1915. Aubers is twinned with the English town of Wadhurst. Communes of the Nord department...
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    Battalion in the Battle of Aubers Ridge (9 May 1915). In this battle the British First Army attacked in the area of Neuve Chapelle in support of the French...
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    The battle was the first British attempt at attrition. The Battle of Festubert was the continuation of the Battle of Aubers Ridge (9 May) and part of the...
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    8th Infantry Division (United Kingdom) (category Infantry divisions of the British Army in World War I)
    Battle of Neuve Chapelle, the Battle of Aubers Ridge, both in 1915, the Battle of the Somme, in 1916, and the Battle of Passchendaele in 1917. The division...
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    rate of fire over a long period was not anticipated and the stock of shells became depleted. The inciting incident was the disastrous Battle of Aubers, which...
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    IV Corps (United Kingdom) (category Corps of the British Army in World War I)
    fought at the Battle of Neuve Chapelle and subsidiary actions, the Battle of Aubers Ridge, and The Battle of Festubert, the Battle of Loos and associated...
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    I Corps (United Kingdom) (category Corps of the British Army in World War I)
    Battle of Mons, then saw hard fighting at the Battle of the Aisne and First Battle of Ypres in 1914, at the Battle of Aubers Ridge in the Spring of 1915...
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    action at the Battle of Neuve Chapelle and the Battle of Aubers during the spring of 1915, and were quickly retired on the arrival of the new Stokes...
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  • John Bowes-Lyon (category Alumni of New College, Oxford)
    stockbroker in the City of London for the firm Rowe and Pitman. In 1915, he was posted with the Black Watch. Just prior to the Battle of Aubers Ridge in that year...
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    James Upton (category British World War I recipients of the Victoria Cross)
    Derbyshire Regiment), British Army during the First World War at the battle of Aubers Ridge when the following deed took place for which he was awarded the...
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    7th Infantry Division (United Kingdom) (category Infantry divisions of the British Army in World War I)
    Battle of Aubers Ridge, the Battle of Festubert, the Battle of Loos, the Battle of the Somme, the Battle of Passchendaele, and the Battle of Vittorio...
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    the centre of the civil parish of Wadhurst, which also includes the hamlets of Cousley Wood and Tidebrook. Wadhurst is twinned with Aubers in France....
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    Maxine Elliott (category Recipients of the Order of the Crown (Belgium))
    planned to marry Wilding, but he was killed on May 9, 1915, at the Battle of Aubers Ridge in World War I. After his death she reportedly became obsessed...
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    the Battle of Aubers Ridge (9 May) and the Battle of Festubert (15–25 May). The battle was fought during the German offensive of the Second Battle of Ypres...
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    two-division attack; Haking proposed to capture Aubers Ridge, Aubers and Fromelles but the next day Monro dropped Aubers Ridge from the attack, as he and Plumer...
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  • Charles Richard Sharpe (category British World War I recipients of the Victoria Cross)
    Army and 26 years old when the following deed took place during the Battle of Aubers Ridge in First World War for which he was awarded the VC. For most...
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    Francis Gleeson (priest) (category CS1 maint: DOI inactive as of November 2024)
    frontline trenches, and bringing gifts. On 8 May 1915, on the eve of the Battle of Aubers Ridge, Gleeson addressed the assembled battalion at a roadside...
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    1916), the Battle of Aubers Ridge (May 1915); Hooge, Givenchy, Cuinchy and the Battle of Loos (September 1915). In June 1916, during the height of the underground...
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    47th (1/2nd London) Division (category Infantry divisions of the British Army in World War I)
    of staff) was acting Lieutenant Colonel Bernard Montgomery. The division fought in the Battle of Aubers Ridge, the Battle of Festubert, the Battle of...
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  • Baron de Freyne (category Baronies in the Peerage of the United Kingdom)
    after the marriage of 1854, Arthur French, the fourth Baron. His eldest son, the fifth Baron, was killed in action at the Battle of Aubers Ridge in 1915....
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    Royal Sussex Regiment (category Regiments of the British Army in World War I)
    Battle of Ypres in November 1914 as well as the Battle of Aubers Ridge in May 1915. During the Battle of Loos in September 1915 Sergeant Harry Wells was awarded...
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    Anthony Wilding (category International Tennis Hall of Fame inductees)
    place. Shortly after the outbreak of World War I he enlisted and was killed on 9 May 1915 during the Battle of Aubers Ridge at Neuve-Chapelle, France....
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    Battle of Ypres. Gough then commanded the 7th Infantry Division at the Battle of Aubers Ridge in spring 1915. He commanded I Corps at the Battle of Loos...
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    as part of the Dehra Dun Brigade in the Meerut Division in October 1914 for service on the Western Front. It saw action at the Battle of Aubers Ridge in...
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    the division next took part in the Battles of Neuve Chapelle, Aubers Ridge, Festubert and Loos in 1915. Order of Battle May 1915 GOC: Maj-Gen H.D'U. Keary...
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    Arthur French, 5th Baron de Freyne (category Graduates of the Royal Military College, Sandhurst)
    at the outbreak of the First World War and died on 9 May 1915, aged thirty-five, probably at about 16:00 hours, in the Battle of Aubers Ridge, fighting...
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    Sir Alfred Rawlinson, 3rd Baronet (category Commanders of the Order of the British Empire)
    action at the Battle of Neuve Chapelle in March 1915. On 9 May 1915, Rawlinson was injured by a German heavy shell at the Battle of Aubers Ridge and returned...
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  • Gheluvelt, Battle of Nonne Bosschen, Givenchy 1914, Neuve Chapelle, Gravenstafel, St Julien, Frezenberg, Bellewaarde, Battle of Aubers, Festubert 1915...
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    Absolution (redirect from Remission of Sins)
    danger of death and there is no time for a priest or priests to hear the confessions of the individual penitents (e.g., to soldiers before a battle), a serious...
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