User:Viking122/Falfemont Farm

Insert non-formatted text here Major General Stephens who was in charge of the 5th Division had taken up an attack position at the end of August 1916 in the Maltzhorn Farm in preperation for an assualt on Falfemont Farm and Leuze Wood. A few days earlier the French First Corps had secured Angle Wood and the German 2nd position to the south-east of Falfemont Farm but fire from the farm halted further progress.

The British Bombardment commenced omn the 2nd September, the 13th Brigade taking up its positions facing Falfemont Farm and Leuze Wood. The 2/KOSB of the 13th Brigade advanced between Savernake Wood, Objective of the French, and Falfemont Farm. The french advance, in Unison with the British, had been brought to a halt under enemy fire leaving the right flank of the wide open. Assailed by frontal and Enfilade fire, nearly three hundred Scots Borders lay dead or wounded. An enemy barrage then poured fire on to the support positions. --Viking122 (talk) 12:37, 13 November 2009 (UTC)13-11-2009