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4𝚝𝚑 𝚘𝚏 𝚂𝚎𝚙𝚝𝚎𝚖𝚋𝚎𝚛, 1914. 𝚃𝚑𝚎 𝙶𝚛𝚎𝚊𝚝 𝚁𝚎𝚝𝚛𝚎𝚊𝚝 𝚘𝚏 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝙱𝚛𝚒𝚝𝚒𝚜𝚑 𝙴𝚡𝚙𝚎𝚍𝚒𝚝𝚒𝚘𝚗𝚊𝚛𝚢 𝙵𝚘𝚛𝚌𝚎 𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝙵𝚛𝚎𝚗𝚌𝚑 𝙵𝚒𝚏𝚝𝚑 𝚊𝚛𝚖𝚢 𝚏𝚛𝚘𝚖 𝙼𝚘𝚗𝚜 𝚑𝚊𝚜 𝚌𝚊𝚖𝚎 𝚝𝚘 𝚊 𝚜𝚕𝚘𝚠 𝚜𝚝𝚘𝚙 𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚖𝚞𝚛𝚖𝚞𝚛𝚜 𝚘𝚏 𝚊 𝚌𝚘𝚞𝚝𝚗𝚎𝚛𝚊𝚝𝚝𝚊𝚌𝚔 𝚜𝚙𝚛𝚎𝚊𝚍 𝚊𝚖𝚘𝚗𝚐𝚜𝚝 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚛𝚊𝚗𝚔𝚜.

Alice Bailey, born on the 13th of June 1894, is a 20 year old gentlelady hailing from Great Yarmouth in Norfolk, England and comes from a wealthy upper-middle class family.

Her father was a famous writer called Thomas Bailey, and was quite popular for poems and short stories in a nationwide newspaper meanwhile her mother managed a local textile mill.

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Having growing up with a famous writer like Thomas as her father, she felt very much in her father’s shadow as she was only known as the ‘Bailey’s kid’, and soon wanted a way out.

As soon as Europe and its soon to be igniting powder keg was brought to Alice’s attention, she began plans to sign up.

Alice managed to become a cadet at the Royal Military Academy in Woolwich due to her background and soon found herself passing out as a Second Lieutenant for the III Brigade, Royal Horse Artillery in October 1913 later promoted to Full Lieutenant in May 1914.

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Alice was getting comfortable with her life in the military and was well respected by her troops whilst also maintaining the roles of a typical British Officer, but when “The Great Game” came in 4th of August 1914, she felt like this was a chance to prove herself as Britain was pulled into the Great War.

She was ready for combat and was shipped off to fight for the British Expeditionary Force (or B.E.F) attached to the 1st Cavalry division.

The B.E.F was stationed near the French-Belgian border before marching to Mons and seeing the first major battle for British Forces and when the British had to tactically retreat due to German numbers.

Alice and her brigade fought through most of the battles during the British withdrawal from Mons, especially the defeat at Battle of Le Cateau and “victory” at