Chapter IX: The Battle of Loos (2)

The account of this great battle, a battle in which from first to last no fewer than twelve British divisions were engaged in the Loos area alone, cannot be concluded without a word as to the splendid French {248} success won in Champagne during the same period. There is a great similarity between the two operations, but the French attacked with at least three times as many men upon a threefold broader front. As in our own case, their best results were gained in the first spring, and they were able to continue their gains for several days, until, like ourselves, they found that the consolidating defence was too strong for the weakening attack. Their victory was none the less a very great one, yielding 25,000 prisoners and 125 captured cannon. It is impossible to doubt that both French and British if they duly learned their lessons, and if they continued to accumulate their resources, were now on the path which would lead them to final victory.

Before settling down into the inactivity enforced by the Flemish mud, there was one further brisk skirmish upon October 20 in that old battle-ground, the Hohenzollern Redoubt. This was a bombing attack, organised by the 2nd Irish Guards and led by Captain Hubbard. The Irishmen were new to the game, and somewhat outclassed at first by the more experienced Germans, but under the gallant encouragement of Lieutenant Tallents, who rallied them after being himself badly wounded, they turned the tide, and, aided by the Coldstream, made good the section attacked. Lieutenant Hamilton was killed and 60 men killed or wounded in this brisk encounter.

[Sidenote: Coming of winter.]

So, for a second time, wet, foggy winter settled down upon the water-logged, clay-bottomed trenches. Little did those who had manned them at Christmas of 1914 imagine that Christmas of 1915 would find them in the same position. Even their brave hearts would have sunk at the thought. And yet a move {249} back of a couple of miles at Ypres, and a move forward of the same extent in the south, were all that either side could show for a year's hard work and the loss of so many thousand lives. Bloch, the military prophet of 1898, had indeed been justified of his wisdom. Far off, where armies could move, the year had seen great fluctuations. The Russians had been pushed out of Poland and far over their own borders. Serbia had been overrun. Montenegro was on the verge of utter destruction. The great attempt upon the Dardanelles had been made and had failed, after an epic of heroism which will surely live for ever in our history and in that of our brave Australian and New Zealand brothers. We had advanced in Mesopotamia to within sight of the minarets of Bagdad, and yet again we had been compelled to leave our task unfinished and our little force was besieged at Kut. The one new gleam of light in the whole year had been the adhesion of Italy to the cause of Freedom. And yet, though nearly every detail had been adverse to us, our deepest instincts told us that the stream did in truth move with us, however great and confusing might be the surface current. Here on the long western line, motionless, but not passive, locked in a vast strain which grew ever more tense, was the real war. All others were subsidiary. And here in this real war, the one theatre where decisive results could be looked for, our position was very different in the opening of 1916 to that which 1915 had shown us. In the year our actual Army in France had grown three- and fourfold. The munitions had increased in far greater proportions. The days had gone for ever when a serious action meant three months of shell economy before the fight and three months {250} of recuperation after it. To the gunners it was like an evil dream to look back to the days when three shots per day was the allowance, and never save on a definite target. Now, thanks to the driving power of Lloyd George and his admirable band of assistants, there would never again be a dearth, and no attack should ever languish for want of the means to follow it up. Our guns, too, were clustering ever more thickly and looming ever larger. Machine-guns were pouring forth, though there, perhaps, we had not yet overtaken our enemy. Above all, our Fleet still held the seas, cries of distress or at least of discomfort from within Germany rose ever more clearly, and it was certain that the sufferings which she had so wantonly and wickedly inflicted upon others were beginning to be repaid to her. "Gott" does indeed "strafe," and needs no invocation, but now, as always, it is on the guilty that the rod falls. The close of 1915 found the Empire somewhat disappointed at the past, but full of grim resolution for the future.

[Sidenote: Change of command.]

One event had occurred in the latter end of the year which cannot be allowed to pass without comment. This was the retirement of Sir John French, and his return as Lord French to take command of the home forces. It is a difficult matter to get the true proportion, either of events or of characters, in so great an epoch as this. It will be years before the true scale will gradually be found. At the same time it can be said now with absolute certainty that the name of John French will go down to history for the sterling work that he has done during sixteen months of extreme military pressure. Nothing which the future could bring, however terrific our task, could {251} be charged with the same possibilities of absolute disaster as those operations of the past through which he and his brilliant subordinates had successfully brought the Army. His was the preparation of the troops before the campaign, his the responsibilities of mobilisation, and his the primary credit that they were in the fighting line by August 22, 1914--they who, upon August 4, had been scattered without their reserves or full equipment over a dozen garrison towns. This alone was a great feat. Then came the long, desperate fight to make head against a superior foe, the rally, the return, the fine change of position, the long struggle for the coast, the victory saddened by the practical annihilation of the old Regular Army, the absorption and organisation of the new elements, the resumption of the offensive, and that series of spirited actions which, if they never attained full success, were each more formidable than the last, and were all preparatory exercises for the great Somme battles of 1916. This was the record which Lord French took back with him to the Horse Guards, and it is one which can never be forgotten by his fellow-countrymen.

Sir Douglas Haig, who succeeded to the chief command, was the leader who would undoubtedly have been called to the vacant post by both Army and public had leaders been chosen in the old Pretorian fashion. From the beginning he and Smith-Dorrien had been the right and left hands of the Chief, and now that ill-health had unhappily eliminated the latter, Haig's claim was paramount. Again and again he had borne the heaviest part in the fighting, and had saved the situation when it seemed desperate. He was a man of the type which the {252} British love, who shines the brighter against a dark background. Youthful for so high a command, and of with a frame and spirit which were even younger than his years, with the caution of a Scotchman and the calculated dash of a leader of cavalry, he was indeed the ideal man for a great military crisis. No task might seem impossible to the man who had held back the German tide at Ypres. With Haig in command and with an Army which was ever growing in numbers, in quality, and in equipment, the British waited with quiet confidence for the campaign of 1916.

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INDEX

Ainslie, General, 162

Alderson, General, 50, 57, 62, 134, 143

Alexander, Captain, 223

Allenby, General, 142, 244

Anley, General, 75, 86, 104, 155

Army Medical Service, 1

Aston, Lieutenant, 30

Baldock, General, 142

Ballard, General, 29, 152

Bannatine-Allason, General, 143

Barnett, Major, 161

Barrett, Captain Moulton, 35

Barter, General, 136, 143, 190, 192

Barton, Captain, 37

Bearman, Captain, 130

Beatty, Admiral Sir David, 168

Beecher, Lieutenant-Colonel, 146

Beith, Captain, 192

Bellewaarde, battle of, 82

Bennett, Captain Leigh, 5

Bernhardi and our Colonial Militia, 57

Bibby, Lieutenant, 17

Blagrove, Adjutant, 161

Bliss, Colonel, 17

Bottomley, Major, 130

Bowes, General, 90, 108, 150

Boyle, Colonel, 51, 52, 72

Bridgford, Colonel, 70

Briggs, General, 98

Brook, Colonel, 131

Brooks, Sergeant, V.C., 232

Bruce, General, 181, 195

Bulfin, General, 42, 109, 142, 144, 225, 226

Bulgaria joins the Central Powers, 171

Bulkeley-Johnson, General, 100

Burchall, Colonel, 56, 72

Burnett, Captain, 36

Burney, Staff-Major, 219

Burnyeat, Lieutenant, 35

Bush, Lieutenant, 4

Byng, General Sir Julian, 142

Cameron of Lochiel, Colonel, 183

Campbell, General, 149, 216

Campbell, Colonel, 41

Campbell, Major Carter, 18

Campbell-Dick, Captain, 123

Capper, General, 143, 201, 228

Carmichael, Captain, 14

Carter, General, 22

Carter, Colonel, 23

Carter, Captain, 201

Cavan, Lord, 5, 133, 221

Cavendish, Colonel Lord Richard, 77

Champagne, French offensive in, 170, 248

Chaplin, Colonel, 160

Chapman, General, 106

Checkland, Captain, 237

Chesham, Lord, 103

Clark, Colonel James, 94

Clark, Lieutenant, 90

Clifford, Lieutenant, 223

Coates, Captain, 213

Cochrane, General, 179, 241

Cockburn, General, 161

Collison-Morley, Colonel, 196

Compton, Lord, 103

Congreve, General, V.C., 142, 144, 161

Cooper, Major, 238

Couper, General, 142, 156, 244

Crabb, Lieutenant, 9

Craig, Lieutenant, 146

Croker, General, 93

Cuinchy, action of, 2

Curry, General, 59

Cuthbert, General, 136, 192

Daly, General, 179

Dardanelles, attempt to force the, 168, 170, 249

Davies, General, 143, 144

De Ligne, General, 65

De Lisle, General, 52, 66, 96, 109

Dent, Major, 207

Dering, Captain, 36

Dickens, General, 181

Dill, Major, 119

Dobson, Major, 215

D'Urbal, General, 6

Edgar, Major, 135

Edwards, Captain, 92

Egerton, Staff-Captain, 38

Elton, Lieutenant, 31

Evans-Freke, Colonel the Hon., 103

Evill, Colonel, 237

Fane, Captain, 95

Fanshawe, General, 23, 143

Farquhar, Colonel, 34

Ferguson, General, 7, 42, 109, 142

Ferguson, Colonel, 103

Ferrers, Captain, 17

Festubert, battle of, 115

Feveran, Captain, 23

Field, Lieutenant Hamilton, 49

Fielding, General, 221

Finegan, Captain, 149

Flower, Brigade-Major, 226

Foch, General, 166, 172, 225

Follett, Captain, 31

Forbes, Colonel, 31

Forestier-Walker, General, 203, 206, 208

Fortescue, General, 8, 10, 31, 108

Fowkes, Major, 6

Fowler, General, 233, 240

Fowler, Colonel, 238

Fraser, Colonel, 131

Freke, Colonel, 103

French, General Sir John, 12, 13, 42, 43, 97, 115, 125, 176, 196, 197, 217, 225, 250, 251

Fry, Lieutenant, 30

Gabbett, Colonel, 130

Gardner, Major, 11

Gault, Major, 89

Geddes, Colonel, 55, 72

Geen, Lieutenant, 160

George, Right Hon. David Lloyd, 137, 250

Gibson, Lieutenant, 233

Givenchy, actions at, 3, 145, 147

Gloster, General, 55, 213

Gough, General, killed, 8, 34

Gough, General Hubert, 175, 185

Gough, Colonel Worsley, 95

Graham, Colonel, 182

Graham, Major, 182

Graham, Lieutenant, 5

Green, Lieutenant, 4

Greenlees, Lieutenant, 130

Grenfell, Captain the Hon. J., 103

Griffin, Colonel, 155

Griffith, Colonel, 39

Griffiths, Major Norton, 35

Gunnis, Lieutenant Geoffrey, 232

Hadow, Colonel, 207

Haig, General Sir Douglas, 7, 13, 29, 115, 143, 144, 175, 251, 252

Haldane, General, 142, 144, 244

Hamilton, Colonel (Durham Light Infantry), 213

Hamilton, Colonel Douglas, 202

Hamilton, Lieutenant, 248

Harper, General, 24

Harrington, Captain, 25

Harrison, Captain, 31

Hasler, General, 64, 72

Hassell, Lieutenant, 130

Hawkes, Lieutenant, 237

Heath, Colonel, 187

Heyworth, General, 129, 221

Hibbert, General, 147

Hicks, Colonel, 73

Hill 60, battle of, 34-44

Hill 70, fight for, 202-225

Hohenzollern Redoubt, fight for, 220-240

Hooge, action at, 140-165

Horne, General, 179, 241

Hosley, Major, 182

Howard, Major, 210

Hubbard, Captain, 248

Hull, General, 62, 72, 76, 104

Hutton, General Sir Edward, 206

Italy joins the Allies, 171, 249

Jackson, Colonel, 105

Jacob, General, 19

James, Lieutenant, 4

Jelf, General, 219, 220, 221

Jellicoe, Admiral Sir John, 167

Jerome, Colonel, 42

Johnson, Major, 149

Johnston, Captain, 43

Jones, Colonel, 100

Joslin, Major, 35, 36

Kavanagh, General, 66, 101

Keary, General, 65

Keir, General, 142

Kelly, Lieutenant, 146

Khartoum, Bishop of, 133

Kipling, Lieutenant, 223

Kitchener, Lord, 137

Kut, British force besieged in, 170, 249

Laidlaw, Piper, V.C., 190

Landon, General, 143, 144, 181

Langden, Captain, 220

Langemarck, battle of, 45

Laskie, Captain, 216

Lawford, General, 129

Lawrence, Colonel, 99

Lawrence, Lieutenant, 188

Leckie, Colonel, 51, 52

Leckie, Major, 134

Lees, Major, 39

Leveson-Gower, Lord, 103

Liebenrood, Captain, 213

Lindsay, General, 142

Lipsett, Colonel, 65

Livingstone, Colonel, 219

Logan, Colonel, 213

Lomax, General, 109

Longley, General, 8, 29

Loos, battle of, 172-252; operations reviewed, 246

Lord, Major, 130

Loveband, Colonel, 105

Lowry-Cole, General, 16, 116, 119

Lowther, General, 123

_Lusitania_, sinking of the, 125

McAndrew, Colonel, 16

M'Cracken, General, 189

McGee, Colonel, 59

McHaig, Colonel, 72

MacIvor, Captain, 220

Maclean, Colonel, 182

McLean, Colonel, 26, 28

MacNaughton, Major, 4

M'Neil, Lieutenant, 191, 214

Mallandain, Lieutenant, 64

Margetts, Captain, 233

Markham, General, 245

Martin, Colonel (Lancaster), 72

Martin, Colonel (Leicester), 238

Mathieson, Lieutenant, 19

Maude, General, 34

Mercer, General, 53, 56

Mesopotamia, campaign in, 170

Miller, Lieutenant, 79

Mitford, General, 203, 214

Mitford, Major the Hon. C. B., 103

Monro, General, 109, 134, 165

Moriarty, Colonel, 105

Morland, General, 35, 41, 42, 142, 144, 165

Morrison-Bell, Major, M.P., 2

Neale, Colonel, 227

Neuve Chapelle, battle of, 12-28

Neville, Captain, 97

Nicholls, General, 208, 210

Nicholson, General, 163

Niven, Lieutenant, 89, 90

Norsworthy, Major, 58

Northey, General, 38, 42

Noyes, Major, 207

Nugent, General, 157, 160, 161

O'Gowan, General Wanless, 6, 35, 38, 42

Oldham, Major Leslie, 34

O'Leary, Private Michael, V.C., 5

Oxley, General, 120

Papineau, Lieutenant, 9, 90

Paterson, Major, 40

Paynter, Colonel, 28

Pereira, General, 226

Phillips, Hon. C. E. A., 103

Pickersgill, Lieutenant, 107

Pinney, General, 16, 18

Plumer, General, 7, 8, 10, 29, 46, 92, 96, 109, 142, 143

Ponsonby, General, 221, 232

Prowse, General, 77, 154

Prowse, Colonel, 31

Pryce, Captain Mostyn, 32

Pulman, Captain, 19

Pulteney, General, 7, 143

Purvis, Colonel, 191

Putz, General, 45

Ramsay, General Sir John, 23, 204

Ramsay, Colonel, 189

Rawlinson, General Sir Henry, 7, 14, 116, 175, 185

Rees, Captain, 4

Regiments:

_Artillery--_

Durham Territorial Artillery, 107

Hon. Artillery Company, 152

R.F.A., 40th Brigade, 5; 52nd Brigade, 185; 94th Brigade, 215

_Cavalry--_

1st Life Guards, 97

2nd Life Guards, 97

Royal Horse Guards (Blues), 97, 103

1st Dragoons (Royals), 79, 103

3rd Dragoon Guards, 97, 110

4th Dragoon Guards, 98

5th Dragoon Guards, 98

10th Hussars, 97

11th Hussars, 8, 98

18th Hussars, 98, 106

9th Lancers, 98, 106

16th Lancers, 8

Essex Yeomanry, 97, 103

Leicestershire Yeomanry, 97, 103

North Somerset Yeomanry, 97, 103

_Guards--_

Coldstream, 2, 4, 5, 6, 134, 221, 222, 223, 224, 225, 232, 248

Grenadier, 25, 26, 28, 129, 133, 221, 223, 224, 231, 232

Irish, 5, 6, 133, 221, 222, 223, 224, 232, 248

Scots, 2, 4, 25, 28, 129, 130, 221, 222, 223, 225

Welsh, 221, 224

_Infantry--_

Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, 72, 76, 86, 92, 94, 105, 180,
184, 192

Artists' Rifles (28th London), 136

Bedford, 37, 38, 39, 78, 80, 203

Berkshire, 16, 28, 119, 120, 127, 180, 188, 240, 244

Black Watch, 3, 4, 120, 123, 125, 149, 184, 190, 194, 200, 225,
242, 243

Border, 25, 28, 129

Buffs (East Kent), 54, 77, 106, 107, 163, 165, 204, 205, 226,
227, 228, 233, 240

Cambridge, 30

Cameron Highlanders, 3, 41, 93, 94, 123, 131, 183, 188, 190, 191,
194, 200, 202

Cameronians (Scottish Rifles), 17, 28, 120, 147, 148, 190

Cheshire, 91, 108

Connaught Rangers, 68

Devon, 17, 18, 40, 41, 78, 80, 120, 185, 186

Dorset, 78, 80

Dublin Fusiliers, 72, 92, 105

Duke of Cornwall's, 8, 29, 30, 55, 71, 159, 160, 161

Durham Light Infantry, 60, 62, 64, 69, 106, 107, 160, 162, 164,
165, 213

East Lancashire, 18, 19, 64, 85, 86, 92, 99, 105, 120

East Surrey, 38, 39, 40, 64, 92, 106, 204, 227, 233, 240

East Yorkshire, 52, 58, 77, 86, 89, 162, 165, 206, 207

Essex, 75, 76, 98, 100, 105, 204

Gloucester, 3, 4, 93, 95, 123, 125, 188, 232

Gordon Highlanders, 25, 26, 28, 129, 147, 149, 184, 185, 190,
195, 245

Hampshire, 34, 65, 69, 86, 99

Herts, 133

Highland Light Infantry, 131, 133, 182, 190, 191, 241

Inniskilling Fusiliers, 127

Irish Fusiliers, 98

King's Liverpool, 23, 127, 128, 133, 149, 179, 187, 189, 232

King's Own Royal Lancaster, 71, 75, 77

King's Own Scottish Borderers, 35, 36, 42, 182, 183, 189, 190

King's Royal Rifles, 24, 71, 157, 158, 159, 160

Lancashire Fusiliers, 75, 76, 155

Leicester, 19, 28, 163, 235, 236, 237, 238

Leinster, 31, 33, 95

Lincoln, 16, 28, 119, 120, 150, 151, 208, 210, 214, 235, 236,
238, 244

Liverpool, 122

Liverpool Scottish, 150, 151, 153

London Rifle Brigade, 85, 99

London Scottish, 3, 187

1st London, 16, 28, 119

3rd London, 19, 28

6th London, 192

7th London, 192

8th London, 192

9th London (Queen Victoria Rifles), 38, 39, 136

12th London (Rangers), 60, 91, 92, 136

13th London (Kensington), 16, 28, 119, 121

15th London (Civil Service), 192

17th London (Poplar), 193, 196

18th London (Irish), 136, 192, 193, 196

19th London (St. Pancras), 193, 196

20th London (Blackheath), 136, 192, 193, 196

21st London, 136

22nd London, 136

23rd London, 136

24th London, 136

Manchester, 68

Middlesex, 17, 18, 55, 69, 92, 107, 180, 201, 227, 245

Monmouth, 35, 60, 75, 83, 85, 89, 91, 108, 236, 237

Munster Fusiliers, 123, 232

Norfolk, 201, 203, 240

Northampton, 5, 18, 120, 122, 188, 201, 219

North Lancashire, 122, 147, 148, 188

North Staffordshire, 235, 236

Northumberland Fusiliers, 68, 91, 108, 150, 151, 206, 207, 216

Oxford and Bucks, 131, 241, 245

Queen Victoria Rifles, 38, 39, 136

Queen's Westminsters, 136, 162, 164

Queen's (West Surrey), 129, 186, 204, 233, 241

Rifle Brigade, 16, 26, 28, 32, 58, 77, 89, 94, 98, 105, 119, 120,
154, 157, 158, 243, 244, 245

Rifles, 3, 10, 20, 31, 32, 90, 94, 98, 122, 127, 180, 188, 201,
245

Royal Fusiliers, 64, 65, 69, 77, 106, 107, 150, 151, 201, 219, 227

Royal Irish, 8, 31, 55, 62, 75, 85, 105

Royal Irish Fusiliers, 8, 30, 72, 86

Royal Irish Rifles, 16, 28, 119, 120, 245

Royal Lancaster, 9, 55, 85, 86, 104, 148

Royal Scots, 55, 94, 95, 129, 184, 192

Royal Scots Fusiliers, 28, 150, 151, 184, 191, 245

Royal West Kent, 9, 35, 36, 42, 204, 205, 233, 234

Seaforth Highlanders, 22, 28, 62, 72, 182, 184, 190, 194, 200

Sherwood Foresters, 18, 25, 28, 120, 162, 164, 165, 204, 235,
237, 238

Shropshire, 32, 55, 70, 89, 163, 165, 243, 245

Somerset Light Infantry, 77, 154, 208, 209

South Lancashire, 75, 83, 86, 245

South Staffordshire, 24, 129, 130, 179, 185, 235, 236, 237

South Wales Borderers, 4, 123, 125

Suffolk, 60, 90, 91, 108, 204, 205, 229

Sussex, 3, 5, 122, 188, 201, 220

Warwick, 72, 92, 129, 130, 155, 185, 186

Welsh, 4, 108, 123, 189, 198, 203, 229, 242

Welsh Fusiliers, 123, 129, 130, 180, 242

West Riding, 37, 71, 79, 80

West Yorkshire, 17, 18, 25, 210

Wiltshire, 29, 134, 152

Worcester, 18, 26, 28, 29, 127, 128, 152, 201

York and Lancaster, 55, 71, 77, 92, 163, 165, 208, 209, 227

Yorkshire, 206, 207, 208, 210

Yorkshire Light Infantry, 37, 86, 213, 215, 216, 227

Royal Engineers, 11, 35, 36, 38, 42, 43, 79, 84, 195, 198, 219

_Canadian--_

1st Canadians (Ontario), 53, 146

2nd Canadians, 53

3rd Canadians (Toronto), 53, 135

4th Canadians, 53

5th Canadians, 50, 135

7th Canadians (British Columbia), 135

8th Canadians (Winnipeg Rifles), 50, 65

10th Canadians, 51, 134, 135

13th Canadians (Royal Highlanders), 50, 53, 57, 58, 59, 134

14th Canadians (Montreal), 59, 134

15th Canadians (48th Highlanders), 50, 57, 58

16th Canadian Scottish, 51, 134

Princess Patricia's, 9, 32, 89, 98

King Edward's Horse, 137

Seely's Mounted Brigade, 137

Strathcona's Horse, 137

_Indian Army--_

129th Baluchis, 68

39th Garhwalis, 19, 28

1st Gurkhas, 71

3rd Gurkhas, 19, 20, 22, 28

4th Gurkhas, 22, 28, 71

8th Gurkhas, 19, 243

58th Indian Rifles (Vaughan's), 242

3rd Indian Sappers and Miners, 67

Jats, 22

34th Pioneers, 67

15th Sikhs, 133

33rd Sikhs, 242

69th Sikhs, 242

Rhodes, Lieutenant Arthur, 107

Rhodes-Moorhouse, Lieutenant, 73

Richard, Colonel, 123

Richebourg, battle of, 115

Richmond, Captain, 3

Riddell, General, 69, 72

Ritchie, General, 181

Ritchie, Lieutenant, 223

Roberts, Colonel, 227

Robertson, General, 180

Robins, Captain, 79

Robinson, Colonel, 91

Romer, Colonel, 205

Roupell, Lieutenant, V.C., 40

Rowe, Colonel Fisher, 28

Rutter, Major, 99

St. Eloi, action of, 29

Sackville, Lieutenant, 32

Sandall, Colonel, 238

Sandeman, Lieutenant, 49

Scott, General, 240

Scott, Lieutenant, 105

Seebold, Lieutenant, 183

Selby-Smith, Captain, 32

Sempill, Colonel Lord, 184

Severne, Lieutenant, 43

Shackles, Lieutenant, 220

Shipley, Colonel, 39

Sladen, Colonel, 36

Smith, General Douglas, 6, 150

Smith-Bingham, Colonel, 103

Smith-Dorrien, General Sir Horace, 7, 12, 13, 23, 29, 35, 46, 53, 66, 67, 142, 251

Smyth, Lieutenant, 133

Snow, General, 8, 109, 143, 144, 165

Somervail, Lieutenant, 18

Southey, General, 19

Sparling, Major, 183

Stansfeld, Colonel, 187

Steele, Colonel, 103

Stephens, General, 244

Stockwell, Captain, 130

Stockwell, Captain (Canadians), 146

Storer, Major, 210

Straubensee, General, 240

Stronguist, Captain, 213

Stuart, Colonel, 152

Stuart-Wortley, General, 142, 234, 244

Suatt, Captain, 23

Summerhays, Lieutenant, 39

Sutton, Sir Robert, 103

Tallents, Lieutenant, 248

Taylor, Major, 210

Thesiger, General, 32, 122, 181, 219, 228

Thwaites, General, 136, 192, 215

Townshend, General, 170

Towsey, Colonel, 162

Tulloh, Colonel, 93

Turner, General, 51

Uniacke, Colonel, 28

Vandenburg, Lieutenant, 90

Vansittart, Colonel, 205

Venables, Colonel, 233

Vickars, Captain, 238

Wallace, Colonel, 60, 91

Walter, Colonel, 210

Watson, Lieutenant, 39

Watts, General, 21

Way, Colonel, 207

Webb, Lieutenant, 23

Wendover, Viscount, 103

Widdington, Major, 10

Wilkinson, General, 206

Willcocks, General Sir James, 116

Williams, Lieutenant, 43

Williams, Lieutenant (Grenadier Guards), 232

Williams, Valentine, quoted, 79

Willoughby, General, 136, 192

Wilson, General, 109, 142, 144

Wing, General, 143, 144, 228

Wood, Colonel, 131

Woolley, Lieutenant, V.C., 39

Worthington, Colonel, 227

Wright, Colonel, 219

Wright, Lieutenant, 17

Würtemberg, Duke of, 46

Wynyard, Captain, 40

Ypres, second battle of, 45-114; result of the battle, 110; sequence of events, 111-114

Zeppelin raids on Britain, 169

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