Talk:Edward Thomas (British Army soldier)

"First shot"
As written, without qualification or clarification, this cannot be correct. See Talk:First shot memorial, but in brief as I have written there, "The first shot fired by British forces was at sea by the destroyer Lance (the gun is preserved) on 5 August, seventeen days prior to Edwards. There had also been confrontations between British forces and German forces in colonial African possessions in the weeks prior to the Thomas engagement." This needs to be qualified along the lines of 'on land on the European continent' or similar, if this can be explicitly sourced. Spokoyni (talk) 19:03, 22 August 2021 (UTC)