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1914

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The Rifles Great War Legacy, Great War 100 – Outbreak of the War and BEF deploys.

  4th of August 1914, 11pm the British Government having not received suitable assurances from the German Government regarding preservation of Belgian neutrality, declares war on Germany and thus begins British involvement in the conflict that would become know as The Great War or First World War. 5th August 1914, Read more…

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