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110 years ago - 2nd Battalion Worcestershire Regiment at Gheluvelt (31st October 1914)

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As is well known, after the failure of the Schlieffen Plan and the subsequent failure of the direct advance on Paris, the aim of the German army in 1914 had to be to outflank the French and British Armies in order to advance further into France. This was to become known, mistakenly, as the ‘race to the sea’. What became of vital importance to th...