I met one company of Irish Fusiliers to-day who took their goal without a single casualty and marched into Wytschaete without firing a shot.
"From Bapaume to Passchendaele, 1917"
Philip Gibbs
I talked to-day with some of our own wounded who came limping through the casualty clearing-stations.
"From Bapaume to Passchendaele, 1917"
Philip Gibbs
The fortunes of the Irish regiments were followed with a jealous eye: it was asserted that they were being sacrificed unnecessarily while English regiments were spared, and the Government was challenged to prepare and publish complete casualty lists for the Irish regiments of the line.
"The Evolution of Sinn Fein"
Robert Mitchell Henry