e, which had the Eightieth
Brigade as its support. The Eighty-second Brigade drove the Germans
from the village and the trenches on the east. The Eightieth Brigade
finished the task of regaining all of the ground that had been lost
except the crater caused by the explosion of the mines. Among the
regiments that made a most enviable record for themselves in this
action were Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry, the Fourth
Rifle Brigade, the First Leinsters, the Second Cornwalls, and the
Second Royal Irish Fusiliers. The "Princess Pat's," as the Canadian
troops were known in the home land, were the first colonial soldiers
to take part in a battle of such magnitude in this war. Their valor
and their ability as fighting men were causes of great pride to the
British.

Before leaving the Neuve Chapelle engagement and what immediately
followed it, it is well to give a brief survey of the actions along
the line that supported it. To prevent the Germans from taking troops
from various points and massing them against the main British attack,
the British soldiers all along that part of the front found plenty of
work to do in their immediate vicinity. Thus, on March 10, 1915, the
First Corps attacked the Germans from Givenchy, but there had been but
little artillery fire on the part of the British there, and the wire
entanglements stopped them from more than keeping the German troops in
the position which they had held. The Second Corps, on March 12, was
to have advanced at 10 a. m. southwest of Wytschaete. The fog that
prevailed on that day, however, prevented a movement until 4 p. m.
Then the First Wiltshires and the Third Worcesters of the Seventh
Brigade began a movement which had to be abandoned when the weather
thickened and night fell.

The attack on L'Epinette, a hamlet southeast of Armentieres, was much
more successful on the same day. The Seventeenth Brigade of the Fourth
Division of the Third Corps advanced at noon, with the Eighteenth
Brigade as its support. It advanced 300 yards on a front a half mile
in length, carrying the village, which it retained in spite of all the
counterattacks.

The work of the artillery was not confined to the main attack, for it
was very effective in shelling the Quesnoy railway station east of
Armentieres, where German reenforcements were boarding a train for the
front. The British artillery fire was effective as far as Aubers,
where it demolished a tall church spire.

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