Chapter 2b – Bellewaarde Wood

Battle of Bellewaarde Wood – 24 & 25 May 1915 Context The last action of the 2nd Battle of Ypres was a successful attempt by the Germans to gain control of the Bellewarde…

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1.  Shell Trap farm, otherwise known as Mouse Trap Farm. St Julien Map, Reference.... 
2. No2 pontoon bridge -   St Julien Map: 10-28NW2 - Ref: I.1.b.5.9 
3. The 5^th South Lancashire Regt attached to the 12^th Bde (4^th Divn)  (10^th, 11^th, 12^th Bde)
4. La Brique: -  St Julien Map: 10-28NW2 - Ref: D.26.d.6 
5. Hill Top Farm -  Map Ref: C.21.d.1.8
6. This was either Pte George Railton (4/2163) or William Milburn 
7. La Brique:  St Julien Map: 10-28NW2 - Ref: D.26.d.6.1
8.  Col. Arthur J. Poole of the 1^st Warwickshire regiment, 10^th Bde, 4^th Divn 
9. 1^st Royal Irish Fusiliers, 1/7^th Argyle & Sutherland Highlanders (A&SH) & 2^nd Royal Dublin Fusiliers (10^th Bde, 4^th Divn)
10. 2^nd Essex Regt (12^th Bde, 4^th Divn)
11. The 1^st Somerset Light Infantry (11^th Bde, 4^th Divn)
12. The 2^nd Monmouthshire Regt (12^th Bde, 4^th Divn)
13. The captured message was intended for the A&SH according to Major Gibson and the Dublin Fusiliers according to the 4^th NF War Diary
14. The 5^th Lancashire Regt needed a coy to plug a gap at Turco Farm– St Julien Map, Ref: C.15.c.3.4
15. Roger William Cranage
16. Very Lights were used for signalling and illumination of the battlefield
17.  Gibson’s handwritten notes in his personal copy of Lt Bunbury’s published ‘Diary of an Officer with the 4^th Northumberland Fusiliers' (Gibson, 1915) 
18. The 1^st East Lancashire Regt (11^th Bde, 4^th Divn)
19.  The 1/2^nd Monmouthshire’s was a TF Bn in a Regt with no Regular Bns (12^th Bde, 4^th Divn)
20. ‘Crump’ was the nickname for a German 5.9 shell based on the noise it made on detonation 
21. Bellewaarde Farm -  Zillebeke Map: M 28NW4 - Ref: I.12.a.6.0 
22.  2^nd Divn was comprised of the 4^th, 5^th and 6^th Bdes
23. Pte James Bennett (4/2187) was born in Kendal, enlisted in Hexham and is commemorated on the Menin Gate Memorial in Ypres 
24.  Lt. Gen. Sir Henry Maitland Wilson– GOC 4^th Division
25. The 3^rd Divn was comprised of the 8^th, 9^th and 76^th Bdes