Events at the beginning of the First World War in England. Clockwise from top left: the Archbishop of Canterbury's Faculty for marriage licenses (many marriages had to be hastened as soldiers left for war); Princess Lichnovsky, wife of the German Ambassador, who had to leave Britain at the start of war with Germany, out for a final stroll; the Oval cricket ground used in connection with the mobilisation of the territorials; Gen. James Grierson, Commander of the Second Corps of the BEF; a house comandeered as a hospital; Sir Robert and Lady Baden-Powell leaving the war office; Sir John French, the Inspector General, leaving the war office; Lord Haldane and Lord Kitchener outside the war office; Lord Roberts leaving the war office.