Headstone of Private R. H. Stuckey, East Kent Regiment (the Buffs), died May 5, 1917 age 29 years. Buried at Cabaret Rouge British Cemetery. © 2013 by John M. Shea
The Buffs20820 PrivateR. H. StuckeyE. Kent Regt. (The Buffs)5th May 1917 Age 29A Beloved Life for Home and Country
"To add to the distractions of this hard month of November, 1914, an invasion scare took a firm hold of the military and naval authorities. It was argued by the War Office that the lull on the fighting fronts would enable the Germans to spare large numbers of good troops — 250,000 if necessary — for the invasion of Great Britain. Lord Kitchener directed all defensive preparations to be made, and Lord Fisher threw himself into the task with gusto. . . . [we] brought the 2nd Fleet to the Thames, disposed the old Majestic battleships in the various harbours along the East Coast, arranged block ships to be sunk, and laid mines to be exploded, at the proper time in the mouths of our undefended harbours; while the whole coastal watch, military, aerial and marine, throbbed with activity."
Excerpt from Winston Churchill's history of World War I. After the Germans suspended trying to break through the Belgian line on the Yser, they turned against the British and French at the Ypres salient in the second phase of the Battle of Flanders. With the Russians having driven back the Germans on the Eastern Front in October, both the French and British thought the Germans had suspended major attacks in Flanders after their assault on October 31 that nearly broke the English line.
The World Crisis 1911-1918 by Winston Churchill, pp. 221, 222, copyright © by Charles Scribner's Sons 1931, renewed by Winston S. Churchill 1959, publisher: Penguin Books, publication date: 1931, 2007
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