With Cavalry in 1915 The British Trooper in the Trench Line, Through the Second Battle of Ypres
CHAPTER I.
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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 trenches along the Yser Canal--The ruined lighthouse in the sand dunes--Snow's 27th Division in the line in Flanders--Bad feet--Wrecked Vermelles--The devastation of "75" shells--"Le Sport"--General Robertson appointed Chief of Staff 1-36