Kiffin’s regiment captured the village of La Targette and was advancing on the village of Neuville St. Vaast when Kiffin was shot through the leg. He crawled, limped, and hitched rides back to a medical evacuation station, where he was put on a train to a hospital at Rennes, France. His wound went untreated for four days, but he was alive. Many French soldiers were not so lucky. Like far too many battles during the war, the Battle of Artois initially gained ground and was hailed as a victory, but most of the ground was later lost to German counter-attacks. Approximately 60,000 French, British, and German soldiers were killed during this futile offensive, and another 140,000 were wounded. Many of the soldiers who attacked alongside Kiffin are buried in this cemetery at La Targette, France. (Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Targette1.jpg)