Corporate Open DS/UK/2058 The Old Contemptibles Association; 25 June 1925-; British military association The Old Contemptibles Association 25 June 1925- British military association

Military; Army The Old Contemptibles Association was founded by Capt JP (John.Patrick) Danny, Royal Artillery on June 25th 1925. The Association had 178 branches in the UK & 14 overseas branches. It produced its own magazine The Old Contemptible and all members were known as "chums": The members of the Association are survivors of the First British Expeditionary Force of August-November 1914 - that 'little mighty Force that stood for England...stood fast while England girt her armour on' -that withstood the German onslaught at Mons, The Marne, The Aisne and Ypres, they kept the enemy from the Channel Ports. They derive their honourable title from the famous "Order of the Day" given by the Kaiser, Wilhelm II, at his headquarters, Aix-la-Chappelle, on the 19th August, 1914:- "It is my Royal and Imperial Command that you concentrate your energies, for the immediate present upon one single purpose, and that is that you address all your skill and all the valour of my soldiers, to exterminate first, the treacherous English, walk over General French's contemptible little Army." The last member of that British Expeditionary Force "The Old Contemptibles", and the sole remaining survivor of the 1914 Christmas truce, Alfred Anderson, died aged 109 in 2005. International Standard Archival Authority Record for Corporate Bodies, Persons and Families - ISAAR(CPF) 2nd edition - ICA 2004 ISBN 2-9521932-2-3 National Council on Archives, Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997 Yes RAHSkeyte 9/27/2012 Rachael.Fragola 3/1/2022 7900cc32-d38b-48c1-95a5-1a6fb7644df2