Antwerp Adventure - Shells and Burning Oil, by Rev. Canon H. Clapham Foster | 4-8 October 1914 | Episode 40
Published on 4 October 1914
The author of this lively account of the stand made by the British Naval Division in the defence of Antwerp was a padre attached to the 2nd Naval Brigade. As such he shared the adventures of the men, and most graphically describes the heroic resistance which ended in inevitable retirement.