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Title: Attack
An Infantry Subaltern's Impression of July 1st, 1916

Author: Edward G. D. Liveing

Release Date: February 20, 2009 [EBook #28145]

Language: English

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ATTACK

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ATTACK

AN INFANTRY SUBALTERN'S IMPRESSIONS
OF JULY 1ST, 1916

BY
EDWARD G.D. LIVEING

WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY
JOHN MASEFIELD

New York

THE MACMILLAN COMPANY
1918

_All rights reserved_

COPYRIGHT, 1918
BY THE MACMILLAN COMPANY

Set up and electrotyped. Published, April, 1918

TO

THE N.C.O.s

AND

MEN OF No. 5 PLATOON

Of a Battalion of the County of London
Regiment, whom I had the good
fortune to command in France
during 1915-1916, and in
particular to the
memory of
RFN. C.N. DENNISON
My Platoon Observer, who fell in action
July 1st, 1916, in an attempt
to save my life

INTRODUCTION

The attack on the fortified village of Gommecourt, which Mr. Liveing
describes in these pages with such power and colour, was a part of the
first great allied