The Rearguard Affair at Etreux | Virtual Battlefield Tour #1

Members of The Western Front Association will be aware of the 'Virtual Tours' we have invested in, as an antidote to the inability of being able to visit the battlefields. These tours are being provided through a partnership with our friends at Battle Guide Virtual Tours.
These tours 'sold out' very rapidly and approximately sixty members are enjoying these 'live' experiences on a fortnightly basis. The tours are being staged in a chronological sequence, with a tour of a 1914 battlefield being the first to be undertaken, with 1915, 1916, 1917 and two covering 1918 in the pipeline.
As promised, we are making these available to members for free (after the live event) but with a slight 'time lag' after each tour. We are delighted to now make the first tour available. What you see here is a four minute 'clip' of the tour.
The full virtual tour (which lasts for an hour) is available to WFA members only and is accessible via the 'members area' on the website. (www.westernfrontassociation.com)
In order to view this in full, you will need to log in to the website using your personal log in details. Once you have done so, simply click onto 'Virtual Tours' and then to the 1914 tour.
Non members are encouraged to join The Western Front Association to see this and other 'virtual tours' which will be produced over coming weeks. This forms part of our very attractive 'package' for members.
The context of this clip is that this looks at a small action which was part of the withdrawal of the BEF in the face of the German advance at the start of the First World War.
Whilst most who focus on the early actions of the BEF concentrate, with some justification, on Smith Dorrien's II Corps, the 27 August saw a determined and costly stand by men of the 2nd Royal Munster Fusiliers, a detachment of the 15th Hussars and a section of 118th Battery RFA. This small force, acting as the rearguard for Haig's I Corps, fought on throughout the day against the overwhelming numbers of the German X Reserve Corps.
Despite bridges being blown and their eventual encirclement, their stoic resistance would earn the respect and admiration of their comrades and opponents in equal measures, this virtual battlefield tour will follow their defence from the initial contact on the crossroads at Chapeau Rouge to the orchard just outside Etreux where they made their fateful, final stand.
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Great stuff👍