The True Story of "The Angels of Mons", by Arthur Machen | August - September 1914 | Episode 21
Published on 28 August 1914
Private Frank Richards, D.C.M., M.M., author of a famous war book, 'Old Soldiers Never Die,' went to France with his battalion, the 2nd Royal Welch Fusiliers, in 1914. (He saw continuous active service until 1918.) He describes with unfailing geniality the impressions of an Old Contemptible ' in the historic retreat from Mons.