BRIGG REMEMBERS THE FALLEN A CENTURY ON

A boxed gift from Brigg - an engraved glass flame featuring The Buttercross.

PICTURES AND REPORT BY KEN HARRISON

Sir John Nelthorpe School  teacher David Waite and a party are going to France and will make a presentation from Brigg.
Starting during the Battle of Loos (25 September – 15 October 1915), British units carried out a concentrated attack on the Hohenzollern Redoubt, which lasted from 13–19 October 1915. 
The British  captured the Redoubt and then lost it to a German counter-attack. 
The final British assault on 13 October failed and resulted in 3,643 casualties, mostly in the first few minutes. 

Read an extensive story about 66 men from North Lincolnshire who died in this action

Find out about the men who gave their lives


The official history of the war suggested that "The fighting on the 13th–14th October had not improved the general situation in any way and had brought nothing but useless slaughter of infantry". 
The attack on Hohenzollern Redoubt was in the latter conflicts of the Battle of Loos - 25th September to 15th October.
Overall there were 61,000 Allied casualties - with nearly 8,000 being Killed in Action - of these, a number of local battalions (of about 700 men) lost more than half of their strength....

• 5th Lincolns - 483 Killed
• 8th Lincolns - 466 Killed
• 4th Lincolns - 397 Killed

Pictured here is an extract from a much longer letter sent to France by Town Mayor, Coun James Truepenny, on behalf of the town.

The Town Clerk with the gift and (below) an extract from the Town Mayor's letter.