Actions of the Hohenzollern Redoubt

Action of the Hohenzollern Redoubt
Part of the Battle of Loos on the Western Front of the First World War
British trenches shown in blue, German in red, 13 October 1915.
Date 13–19 October 1915 Location Auchy-les-Mines, France 50°30′04″N 2°46′30″E / 50.501°N 2.775°E / 50.501; 2.775 Result German victory
Belligerents
United Kingdom  France	German Empire
Commanders and leaders
John French Ferdinand Foch George Thesiger	Erich von Falkenhayn Rupprecht, Crown Prince of Bavaria General Kuntze
Units involved
9th and 46th divisions	117th Division and elements of several others
Casualties and losses
3,643 [citation needed]	3,000 (partial)
The German 117th Division lost 6,572 casualties during the Battle of Loos.
Hohenzollern Redoubt class=notpageimage| Auchy-les-Mines near Loos-en-Gohelle, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France

The Actions of the Hohenzollern Redoubt took place on the Western Front in World War I from 13 to 19 October 1915, at the Hohenzollern Redoubt (Hohenzollernwerk) near Auchy-les-Mines in France. In the aftermath of the Battle of Loos (25 September – 8 October 1915), the 9th (Scottish) Division captured the strongpoint and then lost it to a German counter-attack. The British attack on 13 October failed and resulted in 3,643 casualties, mostly in the first few minutes. In the History of the Great War, James Edmonds wrote that "The fighting [from 13 to 14 October] had not improved the general situation in any way and had brought nothing but useless slaughter of infantry".