sommewalker Posted January 20, 2015 Share Posted January 20, 2015 a little bit of history for you all,this is a framed print from a ww1 magazine ,entitled our jacks in Holland,it goes on to describe how a Dutch sympathiser provided the piano,the RND were very well treated by the local population of Groningen,...and after a time the lads helped out in local businesses,and the like,some people think that they had the easy option being interned,but that is very far from the truth, they suffered the same privations the local people did,and On 11th October 1914, 1,500 men of the First Royal Naval Brigade arrived in Groningen. They had been deployed in early October to assist the Belgian army against German troops attacking Antwerp. During their retreat in Belgium, their escape route was cut off. Commodore Wilfred Henderson was determined for his men not to be taken prisoner of war by the Germans, so he crossed the frontier into Holland with three of his battalions.thereby saving the lives of his men, as pow camps would have undoubtedly resulted in a lot fewer of them surviving the war,which in the end caused the deaths of millions of service men and civilians,commodore Henderson was required to attend a board of enquiry after the war, and was exonerated,a lot of people forget what an officers duties entail , not only has he to cope with sending men into battle, but has to cope with the consequences,afterwards, 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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