Trench talk - Michael Nugent and the Battle of Festubert

Send a text On the evening of the 15th May 1915, men from the Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers left their trenches and crawled into No Mans Land in preparation for a massive attack against the Germans, just to the east of the tiny village of Festubert. As the men lay in No Mans Land surrounded by the bodies of the dead who had been killed in a fighting a week earlier, they waited for zero hour. The great uncle of Irish historian, Michael Nugent, was killed that day at the age of 17, and it...