Sleep-Walkers of the Great Retreat, by Cpl B J Denore | 23 August - 5 September 1914 | Episode 25
Published on 23 August 1914
Corporal Bernard John Denore of the 1st Royal Berkshire Regt., which was in the 2nd Division of the 1st Army Corps at the battle of and the retreat from Mons, here describes most vividly in diary form the experiences of a non-commissioned officer from the beginning to the end of those exhausting days. Corporal Denore was wounded (in seven places) four weeks later at Zonnebeke during the 1st battle of Ypres and invalided home.