French's 'Worst Half-Hour', by Captain H FitzM Stacke MC | 31 October 1914 | Episode 45

A great gap was made in the British line when on the morning of October 31 1914, the Germans captured Gheluvelt. As a forlorn hope the 2nd Worcestershire, almost the last available reserve of the whole British defence, were ordered to counter-attack and recapture the village. How three companies of the Worcestershire, charging over open ground through a hail of fire, restored the British line at a time which Sir John French afterwards described as the worst half-hour of his life, is here vividly told by Captain H. FitzM. Stacke, M.C., the historian of the Regiment.