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After the opening battles of the war at Mons on 23rd August, 1914 and Le Cateau on 26th August, the British Army (BEF), in conjunction with the French Army, began a retreat that took them all the way back to the River Marne, 200 miles to the south. With the Germans in hot pursuit they were forced to fight a series of rear guard actions as they fell back in extremely hot weather. The Great Retreat, as it became known, came to an end on 5th September, 1914 when the allied forces attacked along the River Marne and drove the Germans back to the River Aisne.

On 30th August, 1914, the 5th Lancers of 3 Cavalry Brigade, 2nd Cavalry Division reached Vezaponin, a few miles north of the River Aisne, where they took up an outpost line. On the next day, 31st August they retired, as the Brigade rearguard, to Morte-Fontaine. The 5th Lancers diary recorded that on 31st August, George Juler and one trooper were killed but does not go into any further detail.