“We’ll be home for Christmas” was the typical retort of the lads in Europe as hostilities commenced in 1914. Well a century later we know that wasn’t the case. Four years of ever increasing devastation. Trench warfare as the 20th Century machine age began. The soft tissues of life lost…
Triumph Motorcycles had their single cylinder Model H utilized to get much needed messages to the front lines from the rear echelons.
Other uses included adding a machine gun to a sidecar combination.
The 90km from the Ypres Salient to Calais probably took an hour. The Front at Ypres was maintained for four years.
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