Hooge

"Hooge," he said, in a thoughtful way, "is not a health resort."

Now It Can Be Told Philip Gibbs 1919

Yes, even if next week they were in the Hohenzollern, or the Hairpin trench at the Quarries, or that ugly angle at Hooge.

Greenmantle 2005

At Hooge, the eastern point or apex of the Ypres Salient, several acres are fenced off and retained much as it was in 1918.

The Battle Lines of the 1914-18 War Revisited 1962

"White Château," we eventually took over trenches B 2, 3, 4, 7 and 8, in the Hooge sector, from the North Staffords.

The Sherwood Foresters in the Great War 1914 - 1919 History of the 1/8th Battalion W. C. C. Weetman

At 3.30 a.m. on July 30th, immediately after stand-down, and within a few hours of our arrival in the trenches, on a perfect summer morning, the whole of the wood was suddenly surrounded by a ring of fire, while at the same time a heavy bombardment was opened, concentrating apparently on the trenches around "Hooge Crater."

The Sherwood Foresters in the Great War 1914 - 1919 History of the 1/8th Battalion W. C. C. Weetman

We learned afterwards that the enemy had been registering very accurately upon the Hooge road.

Adventures of a Despatch Rider William Henry Lowe Watson

Hooge, and the remainder to hold sectors of the line farther south.

Adventures of a Despatch Rider William Henry Lowe Watson

Under cover of this bombardment, and behind "flammenwerfer," the enemy attacked the point of the salient held by C Company, at the same time throwing the greater weight of his forces against the Hooge sector occupied by units of the 14th Division.

The Sherwood Foresters in the Great War 1914 - 1919 History of the 1/8th Battalion W. C. C. Weetman

June 16 -- British resume offensive near Ypres, north of Hooge, capturing trenches along a front of 1,000 yards; French make gains north of Arras, in the labyrinth, and near Souchez and Lorette;

New York Times Current History; The European War, Vol 2, No. 5, August, 1915 Various

The 14th Division, which had only been in France a few weeks, and had been with us for instruction at Kemmel, had recently taken over the sector on our left, where there had been much fighting during the past few weeks for the possession of Hooge, which centred about the stables and wall running near the Château.

The Sherwood Foresters in the Great War 1914 - 1919 History of the 1/8th Battalion W. C. C. Weetman