Cabaret of Death! Shelled by Friend and Foe, by Capt E J Needham | 22-23 October 1914 | Episode 43

In one of the most vivid narratives ever written of early fighting in the Ypres salient, Captain Needham, of the Northamptonshire Regt., here tells of a day and night of bloody battle in the neighbourhood of the Kortekeek cabaret and of Langemarck and Poelcappelle. These villages, later known as mangled and unrecognizable ruins, in October 1914 still retained their red roofs and church steeples.