Word: slagged
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Dates: during 1916-1916
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...training at Aldershot with the other members of the motley collection known as Kitchener's mob, or "K(1)". In April, 1914, he was sent to France, where his distinguished conduct soon raised him to the rank of captain. His regiment suffered heavily in the famous "Battle of the Slag Heaps" in the Loos offensive of a year ago. For some mysterious reason, as he characteristically puts it, he was recommended for the Military Cross, and after being subsequently transferred to a machine gun company, he was given a furlough to enable him to come to America. Captain Beith sees...