“Deployment to France was grim.”
“Most of my fellows were average men and women, cut from the plain cloth of normalcy – Inspired by Britain’s efforts in the war to join the Voluntary Aid Detachments programme, looking to make a difference despite the oppression and fear. Me? Most of my brothers-in-arms had already joined the war as soldiers. And whilst in the Brotherhood we are equal, things are not so progressive outside our creeds, and most of our female Assassins were forced to remain behind in London. We took up roles dismantling spy networks and interrogating the enemy, so we could feed those undercover soldiers information covertly through our various networks across Europe.”
“It quickly became apparent that having someone on the ground near fellow Assassins was essential for logistics. For organizing the offensive more efficiently, dealing the blows more swiftly and surely to bring an end to this nightmare. Templar presence was high in London; higher in the field, and therefore of great concern to us. I was lucky enough to have an ‘in’ with the VADs due to my own medical knowledge, and was deployed to France in 1918 with fellow volunteers as a part of an atache to set up field hospitals. I had heard many pleasant stories of France as a child in Dublin, but I’m sad to say that all I saw of it was mud and terror.”
“The most terrifying moment of it all was during the Battle of Belleau Wood, in June of the Great War. It was during that wicked month that many a Templar died under my blade and from my so-called treatments… But it was also where I met a most peculiar American.“
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