John Charteris
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Brigadier-General John Charteris, was a British Army officer. During the First World War, he was the Chief of Intelligence at the British Expeditionary Force General Headquarters from 1915 to 1918. In
Charteris being presented to Queen Mary in 1917
Angels of Mons
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The legend of the Angels of Mons is one of many stories of the reputed appearance of a variety of supernatural entities which protected the British Army from defeat by the invading forces of the Germa
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…and that "weeks of hard fighting" lay ahead. At GHQ also contains a letter from Charteris with the date 5 September 1914, noting that "the story of the Angels of Mons [is] going strong through the 2nd Corps". If authentic, this may be the earliest account of the rumour, predating Arthur Machen's The Bowmen—widely…
November 29, 1915 – Illustrated London News – The Ghostly Bowmen of Mons fight the Germans.
Street art depicting the "legend of the guardian angels of the city of Mons during the battle of August 1914", displayed on a boarded window of a building under repair in Mons, Belgium.