Death Called My Comrades - Holocaust in a Wood on the Aisne by Cpl J F Lucy | 13-14 September 1914 | Episode 33
Published on 13 September 1914
When the British reached the Aisne they crossed the river at several points and fierce battles ensued. Corporal (later Captain) John Lucy who, in Chapter 2, Episode 14, gave a vivid description of the battle of Mons, endured the hardships of the Retreat and was amongst the first to come into action on the Aisne. With a magnificent command of detail he relates, incident by incident, his experiences of a day of bloody fighting and he records, with simple dignity, the loss of his brother of the same Irish battalion.