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  Tales of the V.C    

     Company Sergeant Major H. DANIELS 2nd Rifle Brigade

  Corporal  C. NOBLE.           2nd Rifle Brigade  
  

  (By Lieutenant J.P. Lloyd).
  

  
  

  
  

         On the 12th of March 1915, the third day of the battle

  of Neuve Chapelle, two soldiers of the Grenadier Guards were

  each awarded the Victoria Cross for their bravery in the

  assault by the 7th Division on the German positions in front

  of the Pietre Mill.  On the same day, farther south, Company

  Serjeant Major Daniels and Corporal Noble, both of the 2nd

  Rifle Brigade, won the same high honour near the Bois Du Biez
  

  About five o'clock in the afternoon, the 2nd Rifle

  Brigade left their trenches to continue the attack. Several

  pathways had already been cut through their own wire, but t

  here were too few of them. Hardly had the first wave

  breasted the parapet, when the enemy opened a murderous fire with

  rifle and machine gun. The men raced for the gaps in the wire,
  

  and crowded into them. As they pushed their way through the

  storm caught them. In a few moments the narrow lanes were

  choked with the dead and dying. Then, when it seemed as if

  the attack must fail, Company Serjeant. Major Daniels and

  Corporal Noble volunteered to go out into that hell of flying

  bullets and complete the cutting of the wire. Armed with

  wire-cutters they crawled out, and begun their task.
  

  These gallant men had not lain out there long, before

  both were wounded. Badly hit as they were (Daniels' leg was
  

  broken, and Noble shortly afterwards died of his wounds) they
  

  would not yield as long as they had the strength to continue.
  

  Strand after strand fell to the ground before their nimble
  

  fingers, until at last they had cleared a broad avenue through
  

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   ...This appears to be the larger paper that is a typewritten copy of what had been handwritten in the smaller paper.
  

  
  

  Tales of the V.C    

     Company Sergeant Major H. DANIELS 2nd Rifle Brigade

  Corporal  C. NOBLE.           2nd Rifle Brigade  
  

  (By Lieutenant J.P. Lloyd).
  

  
  

  
  

         On the 12th of March 1915, the third day of the battle

  of Neuve Chapelle, two soldiers of the Grenadier Guards were

  each awarded the Victoria Cross for their bravery in the

  assault by the 7th Division on the German positions in front

  of the Pietre Mill.  On the same day, farther South C.S.M.,
  

  Daniel and Cpl Noble, both of the 2nd Rifle Brigade, won
  

  the same high honour  ... the BOIS DU BIEZ.
  

  About five o'clock in the afternoon, the 2nd Rifle Brigade
  

  left their trenches to continue the attack.  ... Pathways had 

  already been cut -through their own wire, but there were too
  

  few of them. Hardly had the first wave breasted the parapet,

  when the enemy opened a murderous fire with rifle and
  

  machine gun. The men raced for the gaps in the wire,
  

  and crowded into these. As they pushed their way through

  the storm caught them. In a few moments the narrow
  

  lanes were chocked with the dead and dying.
  

  Then, when it seemed as if the attack must fail, C. S. M.,
  

  Daniels and Cpl Noble volunteered to go out-into that

  hell of flying bullets and complete the cutting of the wire.
  

  Armed with wire-cutters they crawled out, and began their
  

  task.
  

  These gallant men had not lain out there tools, before both
  

  were wounded. Badly hit as they were (Daniels' leg was
  

  broken, and Noble shortly afterwards died of his wounds) they
  

  would not yield as long as they had the strength to continue.
  

  Strand after strand fell to the ground before their nimble
  

  fingers, until at last they had cleared a broad avenue

  
  

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