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In the summer of 1914 AB and his family were back in Europe. In late July Marguerite and the children were staying on in Brussels, and AB set off on a business trip to Germany. Just in time he realised that war was imminent and made for France. Marguerite and the children were nearly overrun by the German invasion. But after an adventurous journey — mostly by taxi — they too reached safety. The family were reunited in Montpellier where AB received his call-up papers as soldat, deuxième classe. He was posted to the local depot, and the family rented a villa on the outskirts of the town.
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There is an account of it in Sir Tom Hickinbotham, Aden (Constable, 1958). See also the article A Sad Little Sideshow in The Times, 19 July 1965.
Monfried, H.de, Aventures de Mer (Paris: Bernard Grasset, 1931).
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Footman, D. (1986). World War I. In: Antonin Besse of Aden. St Antony’s Series. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-07731-1_5
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