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First Name: James Stephen Last Name: CLACK
Date of Death: 02/10/1914 Lived/Born In: Brixton
Rank: Private Unit: Royal Army Service Corps 1st Division Supply Column
Memorial Site: 1. Stockwell Memorial 2. La Ferte-sous-Jouarre Memorial, France

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Age-29

25, Probert Road, Brixton

 

The Battle of the Aisne  13-28 September, 1914

After the Germans were defeated on the Marne they fell back to the River Aisne, closely pursued by both the British and the French. The new German line was a very formidable defensive position. To attack it meant having to cross the Aisne and then climb up a 500 foot high ridge on top of which was the Chemin des Dames, a road that gave the Germans an easy way to move troops along the top of the hills. On 13th September the Aisne was crossed by both British and French troops but after that progress became slower, until there was no progress at all. Both sides dug in and the fighting settled down into trench warfare. The fighting on the Aisne continued for two weeks at the end of which both sides realised that frontal attacks on entrenched positions were both costly and non-productive, not that this deterred them from continuing with this tactic throughout the war.

James Clack lost his life on 2nd October, 1914 while serving with Royal Army Service Corps attached to the 1st Division Supply Column but as yet there are no further details concerning his death. The 1st Division had arrived in France at the outbreak of the war in August, 1914 and was in action during the Battle of the Aisne.

 

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