The Battle of Halen

Halen 36 The first wavering noticed in the 24th Line Inf Regt ranks was in the IJzerbeek Creek sector. The departure of the Lancer squadrons had a disastrous effect. As he…

Halen 35-Belgian Reinforcements Arrive-4 Before 2nd Bn/24th Line Inf Regt arrived at Loksbergen, things had already gotten out of hand. From the start of the action, there were uncertainty, hesitation,…

Halen 34-Belgian Reinforcements Arrive=3 Hptm. von Schierstädt, Commander of the G MG-Abt Nr 2, attributed this success to "the valuable peacetime training, the maximum exploiting of the terrain, and the…

Halen 31 – The Belgian Cavalry Division Withdraws The taking of Halen by the Jäger Battalion and the eight successive cavalry charges that followed were intended to defeat the Belgian…

Halen 29 – charge number seven Charge Seven was entirely the domain of the Ulanen Regt Nr 9. While 5th Esk/Kü Nr 2 finished charging, Ulanen Regt Nr 9 came up…

Halen 33-Belgian Reinforcements Arrived – 2 Their speed seemed insufficient. Two officers of the Cav Div Staff coming by urged them on more, but as Lt.C Beernaerts later wrote, did not…

Halen 32: Belgian Reinforcements Arrive            The 4th Mixed Bde Adjutant told 1st Bn/4th Line2 Inf Regt Commander Maj. Rademakers, "Halen is taken. You have to recapture it. If you hurry…

Halen 28- Charge Six and Seven The 5th Squadron/Kü Nr 2, released from its guarding mission, came via the Halen-Velpen-Loksbergen Road to the last houses of Velpen. The 5th Squadron had…

Halen 27 – the Sixth charge The first to cross the river were the Kürassiere. They rode beside the water, crossing the road to Bloemendaal and the railroad track towards Tienen,…

Halen 26 – Regimental Bridging  Every cavalry Regiment had a grouping of wagons known as the fighting baggage.Cavalry regiments had a fighting baggage of the following: 58 replacement horses;two medical aid horses;two…