The title of the article echoes Kitchener’s recent alleged\u00a0soundbite\u00a0(overheard secondhand from a\u00a0British officer in\u00a0a French mess)\u00a0that “I don’t know when it [the war] will end, but I know when it will begin, and that is in the month of May!”<\/p>\n
Ashmead-Bartlett<\/a> went out to Gallipoli as a war correspondent for the Daily\u00a0Telegraph and even filmed the only movie footage of the battle. He was very critical of the Dardanelles campaign and its commander, General Sir Ian Hamilton. He later spent time on the Western Front. After the war he\u00a0went off to fight Bolsheviks in Hungary, as you do, returned to become a Tory MP and died in Lisbon at the early age of 50.<\/p>\n 14th January 1915 The Dorsets spent the day in billets in Dranoutre. The Daily Telegraph journalist, and ex-Bedfords officer, Ellis Ashmead-Bartlett, summaries the war so far in a prescient article entitled “Waiting for Spring” on page 10 of today’s newspaper. He writes that \u201cthis strange war is drifting through a dull period.\u201d and so he […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"Waiting for Spring by Ellis Ashmead-Bartlett http:\/\/wp.me\/p4Wjz3-n1 #dorsets #ww1 #100yearsagotoday #LivesOfWW1","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[12],"tags":[237,338,233,337,339,340,341],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Wjz3-n1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1396,"url":"https:\/\/frankcrawshaw.uk\/8-1-1915-billet-minion\/","url_meta":{"origin":1427,"position":0},"title":"Billet minion","author":"ellimondo","date":"8th January 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"8th January 1915 The Dorsets remained in billets for the day. 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