It certainly was a prodigious task, as the BEF grew from about 100,000 men in August of 1914 to over two million by mid-1916, by which time each mile of front held required 1,934 tons of rations, ...

Robinson, Declercq, and Gilbert. assert that the failure of German Cavalry to properly exploit the initial successes of German First and Second Armies against the BEF and French Fifth Army in August ...

He fought in the first Battle of Mons, in 1914, when the British Expeditionary Force (BEF) stood in the path of the invading ...