History of the Dorsetshire Regiment 1914-1919<\/a>. Whether there’s any significance in that omission is impossible for me to say.<\/p>\nAccording to the 14th Brigade’s war diary, Smith-Dorrien spoke to the Dorsets at 3pm. Exactly what he said is not recorded anywhere I can find at the moment. It appears that, looking at other units’ diaries, he was doing\u00a0the rounds boosting morale up and down the line occupied by troops of II Corps giving, I suspect, the same speech over and over again.<\/p>\n
The Dorsets remained in billets for another day. The weather was bitterly cold with a strong north wind and\u00a0snow on the ground, according to the 14th Brigade’s dairy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
22nd November 1914 General Sir Horace Smith-Dorrien, commander of II Corps, visited the Dorsets at some point during\u00a0the day. It’s mentioned in passing by the war diary and not at all by the History of the Dorsetshire Regiment 1914-1919. Whether there’s any significance in that omission is impossible for me to say. 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Strangely both the Bedfords' and the 5th Division's diaries record that Sector B was shelled. The Dorsets' diary also mentions in the margin that the G.O.C. 2nd Corps visited the fire trenches \u2013 this\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "The Great War"","block_context":{"text":"The Great War","link":"https:\/\/frankcrawshaw.uk\/category\/the-great-war\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1474,"url":"https:\/\/frankcrawshaw.uk\/21-1-1915-a-dot-ball-for-the-dorsets\/","url_meta":{"origin":1144,"position":1},"title":"A dot ball for the Dorsets","author":"ellimondo","date":"21st January 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"21st January 1915 The Dorsets remained in Bailleul for another day, preparing themselves for an inspection by \"A Corps Commander\", according to the 15th Brigade's records. I'm pretty sure this means the OC for II Corps, Sir Charles Fergusson (perhaps A means Army). If you remember,\u00a0Fergusson had been booted out\u00a0from\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "The Great War"","block_context":{"text":"The Great War","link":"https:\/\/frankcrawshaw.uk\/category\/the-great-war\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":907,"url":"https:\/\/frankcrawshaw.uk\/17-10-1914-cuthbert-seedy\/","url_meta":{"origin":1144,"position":2},"title":"Cuthbert, seedy","author":"ellimondo","date":"17th October 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"17th October 1914 The Dorsets remained in and around Festubert all day in billets. 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