Category: History - British
General De Lisle and the 1st Cavalry Division Staff--Resting--Wet winter campaigning--Echoes of the Christmas truce--A would-be Hun prisoner--A visit to Furnes--A Belgian Officer's standpoint--Luncheon with Colonel Tom Bridges--The Belgian Army--Nieuport-les-Bains--The trenche...
General De Lisle and the 1st Cavalry Division Staff--Resting--Wet winter campaigning--Echoes of the Christmas truce--A would-be Hun prisoner--A visit to Furnes--A Belgian Office...
2. CHAPTER II.Army Service Corps vagaries--Motor cars at the Front--Poperinghe--French Chasseurs--The equipment of the French foot-soldier--Belgian peasants--Flemish fatalism--The selection o...
3. CHAPTER III.Through the mud to the trenches--French reserves in the woods--Hidden batteries--Unwise photography--Shrapnel too close for comfort--Chased by shell-fire--In Hooge dug-outs--Rem...
4. CHAPTER IV.Rumours--Lord Kitchener's visit--A horticultural joke--German hate manufactured in Lille--Red Cross assistance--The peculiar exploit of Mapplebeck of the Flying Corps--A joy-rid...
5. CHAPTER V.The shortening of the Ypres Salient--More Hun gas--Strange equipment for fighting the gas--The eve of Rawlinson's attack along the Fromelles road--Great hopes of winning through...
6. CHAPTER VI.The great German attack on May 13th--Twelve hours of Hun howitzer fire--Terrible and awe-inspiring spectacle--The niagara of shell-sound--Around impassable Ypres to Potijze--Clo...
7. CHAPTER I.January 1st, 1915, found me in damp, sodden Flanders. I was one of the dozen remaining members of the original Royal Automobile Club Corps, which had joined the British Expediti...
8. CHAPTER II.Motor car repairs were fearfully and wonderfully executed at the front in the earlier stages of the war. The G.H.Q. shops were not bad, and once in a while I found clever, consc...
9. CHAPTER III.On March 1st Captain "Babe" Nicholson, of the 15th Hussars, who had joined General de Lisle's staff in place of Captain Cecil Howard, 16th Lancers, promoted to General Allenby's...
10. CHAPTER IV.On April 1st, I heard at G.H.Q. that within a few days the French 9th and 16th Corps, which were in the Ypres area, were to be moved south. The British were to take over the lin...
11. CHAPTER V.I spent some of my time running up into the Salient and hearing talk of preparations for a withdrawal of our line to a smaller horseshoe around Ypres. This was to be done as soo...
12. CHAPTER VI.Dawn on the 13th of May was the signal for a howitzer bombardment of the cavalry front which surpassed in intensity and duration any previous gun-fire during the whole War.