‘Troops and supplies being rushed from railhead to the firing line’ 1914 (b/w photo)

‘Troops and supplies being rushed from railhead to the firing line’ 1914. Stereoscopic photograph, World War One, Western Front (1914-1918), 1914. On 4 August 1914 the Germans invaded Belgium in order to attack France. This violation of Belgian neutrality led to a British declaration of war on Germany and mobilisation of the Army. The British Expeditionary Force (BEF) was shipped to Le Havre in France and then entrained to a concentration area on the left of the French Fifth Army near Maubeuge on the Belgian frontier. This placed the BEF squarely in the path of the German First Army as it advanced through Belgium. From a collection of 101 stereoscopic photographs in entitled ‘The Great War’.