Action of Elouges

Action of Elouges Part of the Western Front of World War I 9th (Queen's Royal) Lancers charging German guns during the Action of Elouges Date 24 August 1914 Location Elouge, Belgium and the surrounding countryside Result British counterattacks failed, Germans failed major objectives. Belligerents British Empire Germany Units involved British 5th Division Casualties and losses 250 dead or wounded 350 horses dead or wounded Unknown

Western Front Belgium Halen Liège Dinant Namur Frontiers Charleroi Mons Great Retreat 1st Marne 1st Aisne Antwerp Race to the Sea Yser 1st Ypres Winter operations 1st Artois 1st Champagne Hartmannswillerkopf Neuve Chapelle 2nd Ypres 2nd Artois 2nd Champagne Loos 3rd Artois Verdun Somme Alberich Arras 2nd Aisne Hills Messines 3rd Ypres (Passchendaele) La Malmaison 1st Cambrai Spring Michael Lys 3rd Aisne 2nd Marne Hundred Days Amiens

The Action of Elouges 24 August 1914, was fought during the First World War. Following the Battle of Mons the British Expeditionary Force, was withdrawing, closely followed by the advancing German Army. The British 5th Division assisted by the 2nd and 3rd Cavalry Brigade.

During the action the 4th (Royal Irish) Dragoon Guards and 'A' Squadron, the 9th (Queen's Royal) Lancers charged the German guns. Major Ernest Wright Alexander of the Royal Artillery and Captain Francis Octavius Grenfell of the 9th Lancers were awarded the Victoria Cross for saving the artillery battery guns while under fire. Eventually the 1st Battalion Cheshire Regiment were surrounded and destroyed.^[1]

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