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Family memory (3).
I found this old WWI postcard in my father's collection...
Probably the beginning of WWI, when the BEF ( British Expeditionary Force ) engaged the German Army in Belgium.
The Battle of Mons (23 August 1914) was his first major action...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Mons
It's one of the postards in this series =>
http://www.furaffinity.net/view/18215243
Probably the beginning of WWI, when the BEF ( British Expeditionary Force ) engaged the German Army in Belgium.
The Battle of Mons (23 August 1914) was his first major action...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Mons
It's one of the postards in this series =>
http://www.furaffinity.net/view/18215243
Category Photography / Scenery
Species Human
Size 1178 x 732px
File Size 414.7 kB
I don't know. I've read a number of accounts where they talk about the heavy losses, especially in officers and NCOs. The BEF's espirit de corps, in a certain sense, was gone forever by 1915. The conscripts (Kitchener's Army) formed an Army that was totally different from the "Mr. Kipling's Army" of 1914 and before.
At some points in the early fighting German troops caught in the open by BEF Regulars took such rapid and accurate fire that they thought they were under fire from machine guns.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mad_minute
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mad_minute
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