Mons a “slaughterhouse” says Injured Royal Warwickshire Soldier

Eight soldiers of the Royal Warwickshire Regiment who were wounded at Mons on the 23rd ult. arrived in Leamington on Thursday evening on the way to their homes in Coventry. One of the men said that in the retirement from Mons the Royal Warwicks, the Lanceashires, and the King’s Royal Rifles got on the wrong tack. “We found ourselves in a slaughterhouse,” he added significantly. “There were 3,000 of us, and we were so overwhelmed by the German forces that we were ordered by our officers to look out for ourselves. I don’t know how I got away from it, but I know I shook hands with myself when I found myself at our base. We were then taken to Havre and then brought back to Netley.” All the men were suffering from bullet wounds in the legs.

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