Chubbs & Blaine Circus of RenownThe insane carnival of nationalistic lust to kill the enemy lasted all of two weeks. This naive exuberance for martial glory rapidly fell to the wayside as soon as the armies met in the field underneath that blistering sun in 1914. The British Expeditionary Force, relying on the French to provide the needed intelligence to set up lines of defense, was dangerously close to being bagged in its entirety by the sweeping armies of the Kaiser. Without any idea where the enemy was, or for that matter where the French might be, the BEF was setting in the gaping mouth of an elaborate trap about ready to be snapped tightly shut by the hard-charging Huns.
He, like thousands of others like him, quickly signed up and joined the army when war was declared. Being an Ameri
