1st September 2014 Paris, France
Guest blog: Sir Francis Bertie meets Sir John French and Lord Kitchener in Paris
Rummaging in my library, I found the following blog-post left by my predecessor, with remarkable prescience, to be posted exactly 100 years later! It recounts a dramatic meeting that really did take place in the Residence on 1 September 1914 directly related to the conduct of the War, and in which my predecessor took a […]
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