I’m down to a month until I move to my new job in Belguim and the accommodation that I’ve been allocated puts me right next to so much of the history of August 1914.
So what is the plan? While I will be coming back to the Estate on a regular basis, one of the first plans is to look at what the movements and the routes were of the RE Field Sqn of the Cavalry Division.
The Squadron had responsibility for 3 bridges over the Canal to the west of Mons, which were blown. for the next few days they then moved back with the Cavalry eventually ended up south of Le Cateau before reforming with the Cavalry Division.
A lot of the work they had been tasked with during the retreat was Demolitions, creating Cavalry tracks to improve mobility and also fortifing villages to provide defensive positions for rear guard units to hold back. delay the advancing Germans.
It is going to beinteresting to see, using the war diaries as the guide, what the distances that were covered and also the route.
Rest asured there will be photos and also a post showing what I find on the route.