German postcard map of Paris to Liege, northern France and the Belgian border. After the Battle of the Marne, the Race to the Sea continued north. By October 12, 1914, the mutual attempts of the German and Allied armies to outflank each other were focused on Lille.
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"February 6th.—The frost relaxes, a high easterly wind is blowing.February 8th.—Thaw where the sun strikes. Glad to be away from Camp 17, although we are back to the front in Béthune. The right and left subsectors have been allowed to keep their French names, Girodon and Béthune. Generally the French trench names have been changed, although they were mostly those of dead French officers, thus 'Oursel' has become 'Wurzel.' One was called after Captain Fryatt, one of our splendid merchant skippers."
Extract from the entry for February 8, 1917 from the writings — diaries, letters, and memoirs — of Captain J.C. Dunn, Medical Officer of the Second Battalion His Majesty's Twenty-Third Foot, the Royal Welch Fusiliers, and fellow soldiers who served with him. The winter of 1916–1917 — Germany's 'Turnip Winter' — was bitterly cold, and a two-week long cold snap was starting to break when Dunn wrote. Captain Charles Fryatt was in the merchant navy, and skipper of the SS Brussels on March 28, 1915 when U-33 surfaced to torpedo his ship. Fryatt attempted to ram the sub, which crash dived and fled. The British admiralty awarded him with a commemorative watch that included details of Fryatt's action. On June 25, 1916, Fryatt and his ship were captured off Holland by five German destroyers. He was tried for his actions and executed on July 27.
The War the Infantry Knew 1914-1919 by Captain J.C. Dunn, pp. 294–295, copyright © The Royal Welch Fusiliers 1987, publisher: Abacus (Little, Brown and Company, UK), publication date: 1994
1917-02-08, 1917, February, Bethune
