British in France
LANDED ON MONDAY.
WHOLE OPERATION ORDERLY AND WITHOUT ACCIDENT. A GRIM, SOLEMN BUSINESS. KITCHENER GIVES THE MEN SOME ADVICE. [Br Elictrio Tbeiqraph—Copyright' [United Press Association.] ; (Received 8.40 .a. in.) London, August 17. This evening the Press Bureau announced that. the expeditionary, force had safely landed In France. , The embarkation,; transportation and debarkation of ; mep and stores was carried out i with ithe greatest precision, and without! a fsingle casualty. . ,
King George telegraphed a message to the troops; ’ which’ was' read to each regiment before embarkation. Each man also carried a little slip of paper signed by Lord Kitchener, with two hundred words of soldierly advice, telling them to fear God, honor the King, and remember that they were fighting on the soil of a friendly; ‘nation; to abstain from liquor and looting; to; he courteous to women, but not more than courteous. V'"'
The embarkation was a grim, solemn business, there being no farewells on the pierSi Long lines of khaki-clad men marched to the docks in the early morning, and the vessels slipped quietly away.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXX, Issue 1, 19 August 1914, Page 5
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179British in France Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXX, Issue 1, 19 August 1914, Page 5
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