3rd HUSSARS: SELLE 17th – 25th OCT 1918, SAMBRE 4th NOV 1918
After the Battle of Cambrai, the allies advanced almost …
After the Battle of Cambrai, the allies advanced almost …
The offensive opened with a heavy bombardment along the whole front, …
The battle was fought from late August to early September, …
The Battle of Amiens, which started on August 8th 1918, …
The Battle of Lys was part of the 1918 German Spring Offensive …
Between the 21st of March and the 2nd of April, as the Germans pushed almost to the gates of Amiens, the 3rd Hussars had already paid a terrible price, 6 officers and 122 other ranks, killed and wounded. But the bloodiest battle was yet to come at Rifle Wood, on April the 1st, after the 2nd Cavalry Division had received an urgent call to join the Fifth Army in front of Amiens. Rifle Wood was the last of a series…
When Ludendorff opened his last campaign, …
On the 17th of November the 3rd Hussars arrived …
Once again, the cavalry were warned for ‘the gap’…
The 3rd Hussars were on exercise in the Forest of Nieppe, …