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WORLD WAR ONE Adventures of a Motorcycle Dispatch Rider

WORLD WAR ONE Adventures of a Motorcycle Dispatch Rider. What is the toughest riding conditions that you have ever ridden in (on or off road)?. CALL FOR MOTORCYCLISTS FROM THE WAR OFFICE: Ministry of National Defence (Canada) seeking to recruit soldiers for WW2.

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WORLD WAR ONE Adventures of a Motorcycle Dispatch Rider

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  1. WORLD WAR ONE Adventures of a Motorcycle Dispatch Rider

  2. What is the toughest riding conditions that you have ever ridden in (on or off road)?

  3. CALL FOR MOTORCYCLISTS FROM THE WAR OFFICE: Ministry of National Defence (Canada) seeking to recruit soldiers for WW2. Appealing to valour by comparing motorcycle-riding soldiers to mediaeval knights!

  4. Click to add title Harold Wilbert (1899-1978) Motorbicycle Dispatch Rider Royal Engineers Signals Depot in Canterbury (1917-19)

  5. Darn it … Click to add title ROAD CONDITIONS WERE SIMILAR TO GREEN LANE RIDING

  6. Darn it … Derek Frazer (ex-KYB) green lane riding near Aylesham.

  7. The first motorcycle travel book? (1919) The Royal Engineers are based in Kent.

  8. If you had to ride a motorcycle through a war zone, what would your first thoughts be?

  9. “I imagined war as a desperate continuous series of battles, in which I should ride along the trenches picturesquely haloed with bursting shell, varied by innumerable encounters with Uhlans, or solitary forest rides and immense tiring treks over deserted country to distant armies. I wasn't quite sure I liked the idea of it all.”

  10. “About ten o'clock on the morning of August 23rd I was sent out to find General Gleichen, who was reported somewhere near Waasmes. I went over nightmare roads, uneven cobbles with great pits in them. I found him, and was told by him to tell the General that the position was unfortunate owing to a weak salient …”

  11. “ …We had already heard guns, but on my way back I heard a distant crash, and looked round to find that a shell had burst half a mile away on a slag-heap, between Dour and myself. With my heart thumping against my ribs I opened the throttle, until I was jumping at 40 m.p.h. from cobble to cobble …”

  12. “ … Then, realising that I was in far greater danger of breaking my neck than of being shot, I pulled myself together and slowed down to proceed sedately home.”

  13. OUR LIVES CAN BE A BATTLEFIELD: “(God) is close to the broken heartedand saves those who are crushed in spirit.” (Psalm 34:18)

  14. HOW DO WE LOCATE THE FAMILY OF Harold Wilbert (1899-1978)

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