FOOTNOTES
[1] French cavalry were equipped with the carbine, and not with the infantry rifle as in the case of English.
[2] Light infantry.
[3] On reading the remarkable and charming book which my colleague, Lieutenant Dupont, has published under the title En Compagne, I noticed in one chapter such a similarity of phrase that I thought of changing the beginning of this description, so as to avoid the appearance of a plagiarism. I decided, however, not to alter its first form, but to leave intact this page, which was written in the trenches on that very day 24th January, 1915, long before Lieutenant Dupont’s book appeared.
[4] These were darts and position-indicating rockets.
INDEX
- A
- Agadir, 17
- Alaire, Captain, killed, 52
- Allies, rally of, at Verberie, 79
- —— meeting of, 133
- Alquier, orders received from, 161
- Arneke, 141
- Arras, 141
- Authée, bivouac near, 36
- —— departure from, 36
- Ave, French dragoons billeted at, 34
- —— French squadron ambushed at, 35
- —— French departure from, 35
- B
- Baron, 85, 86
- —— Château of, pillaged by Germans, 86
- Basteigne, 29, 34
- Bavarians, atrocities of, 76, 77
- Bazeille, burning of, by Germans, 1870, 17
- Beauraing, arrival of French at, 35
- —— departure of French from, 35
- —— ambush at, 35
- Belgium, welcome and hospitality of villages, 27, 28, 29
- —— re-entered by French, 96
- —— departure from, 140
- Biesmérée, bivouac at, 38
- Billancourt, infantry action near, 87
- Bonneuil-en-Valois, surprise attack by Germans at, 51, 52
- Bülow, Count von, 60
- C
- Calonne-sur-la-Lys, 96
- Cary, General Langle de, 44, 71
- Cavalry, French, equipment of, 23
- Chapin, Major, 106
- Charleroi, 39
- Chasseurs-à-cheval, charge of, 45
- Chatelin, Lieut., 39, 67, 82, 127, 129
- Chauvenet, Lieut., killed, 35
- Chocques, enemy sighted at, 90
- —— artillery action at, 91
- Clarques, return of French troops to, 112
- Clère, Lieut., 18, 123
- Compiègne, forest of, 63
- —— ambushed in, 63-5
- —— adventures in, 65-9
- Coxyde, 112
- D
- Dangel, Sergeant-Major, death of, 64
- Desonney, Lieut., 106
- Dinant, siege of, by Germans, 36
- —— arrival of French wounded from, 37
- Dragoon, funeral of a, 124-5
- E
- Epehy, arrival at, 41
- —— burning of, by Germans, 41
- Estaires, evacuation of, 93
- —— attack at, 95
- —— cemetery of, 94
- Estrée-Saint-Denis, 84, 87
- d’Estrey, General, 71
- F
- Florennes, arrival at, 37
- Foch, General, 60, 71
- —— address by, 141-3
- —— army of, 44
- Folies, 90
- Franchet, General, 71
- French, General Lord John, 71
- Fuéminville, 35
- G
- Gembloux, retreat from, 31
- —— triumphal entry into, 39
- Germans, atrocities of, 32-4, 76-7, 83-4
- —— cavalry of, 31, 34, 87
- —— flight of, 34
- —— retreat of, 43
- Gilocourt, 82, 86
- Gorgue, La, 95
- Grossain killed, 157
- H
- Hausen, 60
- Hill 70, 145
- Hougled, entry of, by French, 97
- —— infantry and artillery attacks at, 98-101
- J
- Johannes Father, quotation from, 150
- Jouillié, Major, 49, 56, 83
- L
- Lametz, Captain, 139
- Landelies, arrival at, 40
- Laperrade, 18
- Lens road, French advance towards, 146
- —— German lines carried near, 154
- —— redan blown up, 149
- Liége, arrival of French dragoons at, 31
- Lille-Arras, front of, 145
- Lombaertzyde, bombardment of, 128
- Loos, French attack at, 150-5
- —— German counter-attack at, 159
- —— preparations for attack at, 144-7
- Lubeké, 35
- Lys, bridge of, evacuated, 93
- M
- Magrin, Lieut., 18, 102, 104, 105
- Mahot, Captain, 113, 116
- Maindreville, M. de, German atrocities at château of, 83
- Marne, battle of, 43
- Maugenot, 139, 160
- —— report to, 149
- Maunoury, General, army of, 44, 47, 71
- Mazingarbe, relieved trenches at, 144
- —— divisional dressing station at, 162
- Montcalm killed, 36
- Muno, arrival of French cavalry at, 26
- N
- Nesle, infantry action near, 87
- Nieuport-Ville, road to, 113
- —— bombardment of, 114-17, 119
- —— billeted at, 116-18
- —— scenes at, 114-19
- Nœux-les-Mines, wounded sent to, 144, 163
- Noyelette, resting at, 144
- O
- Oise River, crossing of, 84
- Ostdinkerque, 113
- Outersteene, Belgian manifestations to French, 96
- P
- Paris, retreat of French cavalry towards, 41
- Parvillers, 88
- Petit, Corporal, 154
- Polignac, 18
- Poperinghe, 131
- Prussians, capture of Staff Officers, 48
- R
- Règues, Lieut., 156
- Rheims Cathedral, 14, 16
- —— departure from, 13
- —— scenes at, 20, 21, 23, 25
- Roberts, Lord, funeral of, 110-12
- Robillot, Colonel, 21, 24
- S
- Saint-Martin, bivouac at, 38
- Saint-Omer, 110
- Salverte, Captain de, 56, 68, 82, 84
- Staden, village of, fighting at, 97, 108
- Stivalet, 147-8
- T
- Tarragon, Captain de, 56, 65, 83, 85, 86, 102, 103, 104
- —— death of, 105
- Taube drops bombs, 50
- Taubes at Gembloux, 39
- Teint, 58
- Troène, fighting at, 45
- U
- Uhlans, 35, 56, 57, 62
- V
- Verberie, rally of French troops, at, 79, 80, 82
- —— scenes at, 74-84
- Vigoureux, Captain, 112, 117
- Villers-Carbonel, artillery combat at, 41
- —— in flames, 41
- Villers-Cotterets, forest of, 49-51
- —— loss of French machine-guns at, 50
- —— fighting at, 51-4
- —— in hiding in, 54-7
- —— retreat from, 57-9
- Von Kluck, General, army of, 47
- W
- Walloon district, the, 26
- Y
- Ypres, 131
- —— Cloth Hall at, 132
- —— Cathedral, at, 132
- —— scenes at, 132-3
- —— in the trenches near, 134-40
- Yser, 74, 123
- Z
- Zonnebeck, 133