Laventie

Got down to the far end of Laventie without mishap although one bullet made the skin of my back creep.

The 5th Seaforth Highlanders in the trenches Victoria Janssen 2010

I remembered how I had first heard it on the ridge before Laventie.

Greenmantle 2005

Very much the same thing happened one day in the winter of 1915 when I was serving with the Grenadier Guards in front of Laventie.

MY EARLY LIFE WINSTON CHURCHILL 2003

Very much the same thing happened one day in the winter of 1915 when I was serving with the Grenadier Guards in front of Laventie.

MY EARLY LIFE WINSTON CHURCHILL 2003

Very much the same thing happened one day in the winter of 1915 when I was serving with the Grenadier Guards in front of Laventie.

MY EARLY LIFE WINSTON CHURCHILL 2003

In September I found the Brigade occupying a portion of the line in front of Laventie, just north of Neuve Chapelle.

The Story of the 2/4th Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry Geoffrey Keith Rose

Laventie days are remembered with affection by old members of the

The Story of the 2/4th Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry Geoffrey Keith Rose

The line of small plane trees, which gave Laventie the meretricious semblance of a garden city, was standing yet.

The Story of the 2/4th Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry Geoffrey Keith Rose

Headquarters now were in the old dressing station at Laventie.

The Story of the 2/4th Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry Geoffrey Keith Rose

Brigade went back to rest the Battalion had billets on the outskirts of Merville, a friendly little town, since levelled in ruins; and, when reserve to the Brigade, in Laventie.

The Story of the 2/4th Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry Geoffrey Keith Rose