The Battle of La Bassée was fought by German and Franco-British forces in northern France in October 1914, during reciprocal attempts by the contending armies to envelop the northern flank of their opponent, which has been called the Race to the Sea. The 6th Army took Lille before a British force could secure the town and the 4th Army attacked the exposed British flank further north at Ypres. The British were driven back and the German army occupied La Bassée and Neuve Chapelle. Around 15 October, the British recaptured Givenchy-lès-la-Bassée but failed to recover La Bassée.
Neuve Chapelle to La Bassée area, 1914
Flanders Plain: Belgium and northern France, 1914
Aubers ridge, east of Neuve Chapelle
Sir James Willcocks, GOC Indian Corps
The 3rd (Lahore) Division was an infantry division of the Indian Army and before 1895, the Bengal Army, first organised in 1852. It saw service during World War I as part of the Indian Corps in France before being moved to the Middle East where it fought against troops of the Ottoman Empire.
'2nd Mule Corps, Lahore Division', 5 November 1914
'Policemen Indiens de la Division de Lahore et l'A.P.M Locon', November 1914
3rd (Lahore Division) in camp at Cercottes near Orléans in France.
Study of a sepoy, standing beside a limber, with diagrams and dimensions of the limber, Estaires, France, 5 June 1915
