Battle of Neuve Chapelle
8402 Pvte George Green (1889-1916)

Did you hear of the Lincolns

of their fame I will try to tell.

How they helped in that Glorious Victory

in the Battle of Neuve Chapelle.

It was about six in the morning

as we waited to start the attack.

All the boys were eager for Battle,

with six hundred guns at our back.

 Of a sudden the guns starting barking,

the twelve inch and nine point two’s.

As the other I would like to mention,

as there were Huns more than a few.

My God when the shells started bursting

you would think hell had been let loose.

With the enemy one consolation,

to give in or retire which they choose.

It lasted an hour and a quarter

when we received the order to charge.

We were over the top like lightning,

with a cheer from the R.I.R.’s

It was then our Gallant Colonel

received the first wound of the day.

His last words were have we took the trenches,

it was then that God called him away.

The gallant R.I.R.’s took the village

as they meant from the start.

I’ll always take off my hat to the Irish

On that terrible tenth of March.

on that terrible tenth of March.

Mike Sessions