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"Epuisé les liens donnés par Google", Arnaud ? vous êtes vraiment fort ! Moi, je n'ai fait que commencer...
Mais -pas de polémique! -Hic, hic hic... Mais (encore) les liens à partir de quelle entrée ?
Tout à fait d'accord pour recentrer la recherche sur le 10th Essex, j'ai questionné ledit Google, en entrant, pour ma part: 10th Essex Rouez , et je n'ai pas encore épuisé la moisson, (ou, pour faire plus loco-local de chez moi: la vendange!).
Remarque préliminaire: au vu des pages Google, il me semble qu'il convient mieux de parler du 10e BATAILLON du Essex Regiment, plutôt que du 10th Régiment du Essex.
Bref: un point est acquis: ce 10th Essex est bien dans la 18th Division.
extrait de
http://www.1914-1918.net/essex.htm
The 18th (Eastern) Division in 1914-1918
The history of 18th (Eastern) Division
This Division was established by the Eastern Command in September 1914, as part of the Army Orders authorising Kitchener's Second New Army, K2. Early days were somewhat chaotic, the new volunteers having very few trained officers and NCOs to command them, no organised billets or equipment. The units of the Division initially concentrated in the Colchester area but moved in May 1915 to Salisbury Plain. King George V inspected the Division on 24 June.
Embarkation for France began on 24 July and units moved to assemble near Flesselles, completing concentration there five days later. /.../
The Division served on the Western Front for the remainder of the war, taking part in many of the significant actions: /.../
1918
The Battle of St Quentin+
The Battle of the Avre+
The actions of Villers-Brettoneux+
The battles marked + are phases of the First Battles of the Somme 1918
The Battle of Amiens
The Battle of Albert++ in which the Division captured the Tara and Usna hills near La Boisselle and once again captured Trones Wood
The Second Battle of Bapaume++
The battles marked ++ are phases of the Second Battles of the Somme 1918
The Battle of Epehy^
The Battle of the St Quentin Canal^
The battles marked ^ are phases of the Battles of the Hindenburg Line
The Battle of the Selle^^
The Battle of the Sambre
The battles marked ^^ are phases of the Final Advance in Artois
The order of battle of the 18th (Eastern) Division
53rd Brigade
8th Bn, the Norfolk Regiment disbanded February 1918
8th Bn, the Suffolk Regiment disbanded February 1918
10th Bn, the Essex Regiment /.../
Autre site:
www.archive.org/stream/54thinfantrybrig ... a_djvu.txt - 551k -
où l'on trouve:
It was still dark on the morning of March 2ist when a terrific
German bombardment began " the most terrific roar of guns
we have ever heard," is the verdict of surviving members of
the Brigade, all connoisseurs of bombardments by this time.
The great push had started, and along the whole of our front
gas and high-explosive shells from every variety of gun and
trench mortars were being hurled over.
Everyone realized that the great ordeal for which they had
been training and planning for weeks was upon them.
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It had been the custom during the past week for a lorry to
report at 9.30 every morning at Rouez to take officers of the
Bedfordshire Regiment to reconnoitre the line. Punctually at
9.30 that morning the lorry driver reported to Colonel Percival
for orders. The lorry came in very useful, as it was put at the
disposal of Captain Fergusson, the Brigade amusements officer,
who had been " showing " at Rouez Camp the previous night,
and had all his pierrot kit and cinema there, with no means of
getting it away. But for this lorry the kit and cinema would
probably have been lost.
puis:
As soon as this was done the Brigade was ordered to hold
the high ground east of Caillouel, gaining touch with the French
(9th Cuirassiers) on the left about Beaugies...
Autrement dit (pour le non anglicistes...), dans cette chronique de la 54e brigage, on retrouve Rouez, et le 9e Cuir à pieds...
Voilà. Sans autre commentaire. C'était mon obole, pour ce soir, au faisceau des "fortes probabilités", ou ajout à un bon nombre de convergences...
Bien à vous,
Achache
Lu ainsi, ça peut faire prétentieux ! Je n'ai en fait épuisé que les entrées pour "10th Essex Regiment". Point barre ; ma phrase était maladroite. En effet, je ne connais pratiquement rien à l'organisation de l'armée anglaise... donc je ne risquais pas de faire une recherche sur le "10th bataillon, Essex Regiment".