On this day in 1915 eleven soldiers, six of them Irishmen, and a French civilian stood in the courtyard of a château in Guise, northern France. They had been hiding for months after the British Army retreat to the River Marne following the Battle of Mons in August 1914.
The men were hiding in the woods near Iron in the Aisne region of France. Brave locals secretly brought them
Who Watches the Watchers? 