 By the end of March 1915 , the King 's had eight battalions on the Western Front . The 1st and 1 / 5th participated in a " holding " attack at Givenchy designed to support the Allied offensive at Neuve Chapelle . An ineffectual preliminary bombardment failed to destroy much of the barbed wire , fatally impeding the 1st King 's . The withering hail @-@ of @-@ fire inflicted heavy casualties on the King 's , one of whom was the wounded Lieutenant @-@ Colonel Carter . A platoon under Lieutenant Miller managed to reach German lines and blockade itself in a communications trench for over an hour , under fire from Allied artillery , until withdrawing to British lines . The battalion 's casualties amounted to 61 killed , 115 wounded , and 62 missing . 
