Reinstated from the ranks

During the First World War many myths , legends  and rumours were passed about . One such rumour was that several high ranking British officers were cashiered and dismissed from the Army after the retreat from Mons . Their crime being that they had signed papers agreeing to surrender to the German Army offered by Belgian town officials whilst the British Army rested in their towns . These papers were quickly handed to the Germans as they occupied the area  , and published in the Berlin press . From the Liverpool Courier of January 1918 comes information of the reinstatement of a former Lt Colonel of the Royal Artillery to his former rank for distinguished service in the Devonshire Regiment .