British Expeditionary Force (World War I) | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2019-05-16

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00:01:41 1 Formation
00:03:13 1.1 Command structure
00:04:02 1.2 Kitchener's New Army
00:04:58 2 Growth during the War
00:05:34 2.1 First Army
00:06:06 2.2 Second Army
00:06:46 2.3 Third Army
00:07:13 2.4 Fourth Army
00:07:57 2.5 Fifth Army
00:08:32 3 Area of operations
00:08:42 3.1 1914
00:11:03 3.2 1915
00:11:30 3.3 1916
00:12:28 3.4 1917
00:12:56 3.5 1918
00:13:48 4 Empire and Portuguese contribution
00:14:20 4.1 Indian Expeditionary Force A
00:15:56 4.2 South African Overseas Expeditionary Force
00:17:10 4.3 Canadian Expeditionary Force
00:18:17 4.4 New Zealand Expeditionary Force
00:19:54 4.5 Australian Imperial Force
00:22:46 4.6 Portuguese Expeditionary Corps
00:24:22 4.7 Newfoundland Regiment
00:25:25 5 Weapons
00:27:01 6 Campaign medals
00:29:39 7 Aftermath



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The British Expeditionary Force (BEF) was the British Army sent to the Western Front during the First World War. Planning for a British Expeditionary Force began with the Haldane reforms of the British Army carried out by the Secretary of State for War Richard Haldane following the Second Boer War (1899–1902).The term "British Expeditionary Force" is often used to refer only to the forces present in France prior to the end of the First Battle of Ypres on 22 November 1914. By the end of 1914—after the battles of Mons, Le Cateau, the Aisne and Ypres—the old Regular Army had been wiped out, although it managed to help stop the German advance. An alternative endpoint of the BEF was 26 December 1914, when it was divided into the First and Second Armies (a Third, Fourth and Fifth being created later in the war). B.E.F. remained the official name of the British armies in France and Flanders throughout the First World War.
Emperor Wilhelm II of Germany, who was famously dismissive of the BEF, allegedly issued an order on 19 August 1914 to "exterminate ... the treacherous English and walk over General French's contemptible little army". Hence, in later years, the survivors of the regular army dubbed themselves "The Old Contemptibles". No evidence of any such order being issued by the Kaiser has ever been found.