Neuve Chapelle

In World War I, inconclusive battle between British and German forces March 1915 over Neuve Chapelle, a French village in the département of Nord, southwest of Armentières.

The British decided to attack Neuve Chapelle March 1915 to prevent the movement of German troops to the east and to assist the French at Arras. The battle began 12 March with an intensive artillery bombardment and a successful infantry assault which took four lines of German trenches and the village itself. However, the reserve troops which should have followed up the attack failed to arrive in time, and the Germans were able to reform their line.