A Sentry Amongst The Brass Hats, Happy Memories of Haig, by Capt Allbeury MC | July 1916 | Episode 127

When Sir Douglas Haig succeeded Sir John French as Commander-in-Chief he moved General Headquarters from St. Omer to Montreuil.

Guard duties were for some time performed by the Artists' Rifles, while they were also engaged in the extremely valuable service of providing a flow of young officers to the line.

The author, afterwards commissioned to the Durham Light Infantry, here gives a highly entertaining account of his experiences as a sentry at G.H.Q. Captain Allbeury is shown in the uniform of the Durham Light Infantry. He received the Military Cross at Vieux Berquin in June 1918 and the Croix de Guerre Belge in November of the same year. After his long service in the war he remained a soldier, as a captain in the Territorial Army Reserve of Officers.