European Times Arras: Arm in arm they lie, `Grimsby Chums' in death as in life, twenty soldiers killed by friendly fire

The Independent - London | June 20, 2001| | Copyright

EIGHTY-FOUR years after they died, a "lost patrol" of 20 "Grimsby Chums" has been found lying arm in arm in a corn field, beside a busy dual carriageway in northern France.

Almost certainly, they were victims of what is now called "friendly fire": a British gun firing short as they advanced behind a rolling barrage to attack the second line of German defences on the first day of the battle of Arras, on 9 April 1917.

Their remains were discovered last month by French archaeologists, excavating the battlefield site before a factory - ironically, probably a German BMW car factory - is built on ...

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