A dark time for the 2nd Royal Irish Regiment
The 2nd Battalion of the Royal Irish Regiment suffered devastating losses at the Battle of Le Pilly in France in October 1914. Photograph: Courtesy of the Imperial War Museum, London
The Germans advanced 15 kilometres in just two days and took thousands of Allied prisoners. Among them was Pte William Rusling of the Northumberland Fusiliers from Sheffield.Head over heels – Alison Healy on cupid’s arrow The men most likely to be buried in that mass grave are not Englishmen, but the Irishmen of the 2nd Royal Irish Regiment who were killed at the Battle of Le Pilly on October 19th and 20th, 1914.
Of those who died, the bodies of 152 men are missing and they are remembered on the Le Touret memorial nearby. Tragically, more than 500,000 British and Commonwealth soldiers who died in the first World War have no known grave, but this battle was unusual.
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