2-710-691 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

'An Incident in the Retreat from Mons', (1919). Scene from the First World War: in August 1914 the British Expeditionary Force were attacked by the Germans at Mons in Belgium. 'A number of wounded were sheltered in a church over which the Red Cross flag was flying. The Germans began to shell the building...' After 'The Famous Four Days Retreat from Mons: How the wounded helped the wounded'. From "The History of the Great European War: its causes and effects", Vol. II, by W. Stanley Macbean Knight. [Caxton Pulishing Company, Limited, London, 1919]