100 Years ago.

[bdtj1815]

A very moving series of programmes on the BBC at different commemorative events last night. The best from Commonwealth War cemetery near Mons where the first and last war dead are buried, The last, a Canadian infantryman, died only minutes before 11.00am 0n the 11th!

Two interesting facts though, both pointed out in letters to today's Times newspaper. British Summer Time was not used in 1914 so the time then was actually 10.00 pm two not one hour behind Berlin, and Austro-Hungarian troops were already fighting in Serbia having invaded on the 23rd of July.