Bois-le-Prêtre fighting

The Bois-le-Prêtre fighting (Priest's Wood, in German) was an engagement in the First World War between September 1914 and July 1915 involving the French 73rd Division and the 128th Division (the Wolves of Bois-le-Prêtre) and the German 121st Division.

Situation

Bois le Prêtre is a Lorraine forest north-west of the town of Pont-à-Mousson, near the Moselle River. In 1914 German troops attacked the Verdun fortifications, a strongpoint inside the French defence lines.

Facts

• The villages of Regniéville, Remenauville and Fey-en-Haye were destroyed.
• Bois-le-Pretre was one of the first missions of the volunteer American Ambulance's Field Service

See also

• Battle of Grand Couronné
• Battle of Saint-Mihiel

External links

• http://www.greatwardifferent.com/Great_War/Poilu/Pretre_01.htm
• http://jmpicquart.pagesperso-orange.fr/ambtextGB.htm