"B" Sub Section "L" Battery 1914

This photo was taken in 1914 before leaving for France at the outbreak of the Great War. The Battery was involved in the first big battle of the war and regarded as one of the 10 most couragous battles of the war. It was fought at NERY in France in September 1914 in which 70 percent of the men were killed . The reason I am here is that one of them was my father a survivor second from the left who manned the remaining gun in the battle . There is more to tell about this story
"Action at Nery, 1st September 1914. During the fighting retreat from Mons, battery L of the Royal horse artillery bivouacked by a small town of Nery. Their temporary halt was interrupted during the early morning cavalry patrol warning of the imminent arrival of a large German force cavalry, infantry and artillery, almost immediately German shells began bursting amongst the battery, accompanied by a rifle and machine gun fire.3guns were knocked out before they could be brought into action and two more were disabled soon afterwards, while the British gunners sustained heavy casualties, the remaining no6 gun with a scratch crew manage to maintain a steady fire for some two hours implicating heavy casualties on the Germans until reinforcements arrived , driving off the surviving German units. Three Victoria crosses(one posthumously) and two French medaille militaire were awarded and two NCO,s were commissioned after the action"