This image shows a group from the ‘B’ Company Kent Cyclist Battalion posing at the Pier Head. At the outbreak of war in August 1914, men of the ‘B’ Company of the Kent Cyclist Battalion – two-wheeled marksmen capable of crossing virtually any terrain at a speed of eight miles an hour – were stationed at Herne and ordered to patrol the sea-wall at Reculver. Their task was to keep a sharp lookout for the expected German invasion.
Image and text from the Collection of the Herne Bay Historical Records Society