The Northamptonshire Regiment 1914

On 17 September 1914, German troops approached the 1st Battalion, Northamptonshire Regiment under a white flag.
It looked like surrender.
It was a trap.

This is Part 1 of a Multi-part series on the Northamptonshire Regiment in the First World War — the movements, formations and actions of the two regular battalions from the outbreak of war to New Year’s Eve 1914.

Follow the 1st Battalion from Mons through the Retreat, the Marne, the Aisne and the slaughter of the First Ypres.

Follow the 2nd Battalion home from Egypt and into the winter trenches south of Armentières. Local men from Northamptonshire and Rutland in the original BEF.

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If you have family links to the regiment, war-diary extracts, letters or photographs from 1914, please share them in the comments.

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