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The Grenadier Guards in the Great War of 1914-1918, Vol. 1 of 3

Chapter 45: A SELECTION OF MILITARY WORKS
By Frederick Ponsonby
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A regimental account traces the actions and experiences of the Grenadier Guards during the 1914–1918 European conflict, focusing on battalion, company and platoon-level operations. It synthesizes officers' letters, diaries and battalion records to reconstruct engagements from the Retreat from Mons through the Marne, the Aisne and the First Battle of Ypres. The author explains the difficulties of contemporary military history—contradictory eyewitness reports, uneven documentation and scarce information about the enemy. Extended trench life, the impact of gas and high explosives, and heavy casualty lists are recorded alongside maps and administrative detail. The narrative deliberately emphasizes granular regimental experience rather than grand tactical analysis.

A SELECTION OF MILITARY WORKS

THE MILITARY MAP: Elements of Topography. By Gerald Maxwell, F.R.G.S. New and greatly enlarged edition. With maps. 8vo. 6s. net.

BY THE HON. J. W. FORTESCUE

A HISTORY OF THE BRITISH ARMY. With numerous maps and plans. 8vo.

VOLS. I. and II. TO THE CLOSE OF THE SEVEN YEARS' WAR. Second edition. 18s. net each.

Vol. III. TO THE SECOND PEACE OF PARIS. 18s. net.

VOL. IV. FROM THE FALL OF THE BASTILLE TO THE PEACE OF AMIENS. In two parts and a separate volume of maps. Second edition. 42s. net.

Vol. V. FROM THE RENEWAL OF THE WAR TO THE EVACUATION OF RIO DE PLATA (1803-1807). 18s. net.

Vol. VI. FROM THE EXPEDITION TO EGYPT, 1807, TO THE BATTLE OF CORUÑA, JAN. 1809. 18s. net.

Vol. VII. 1809-1810. With a separate volume of maps. 21s. net.

Vol. VIII. 1811-1812. With a separate volume of maps. 30s. net.

VOL. IX. 1813-1814.

VOL. X. 1814-1815.

BRITISH CAMPAIGNS IN FLANDERS, 1690-1794. Being Extracts from "A History of the British Army." With maps and plans. Extra Crown 8vo. 8s. 6d. net.

LONDON: MACMILLAN & CO., Ltd.

Footnotes

1.  In November 1914, when the Allies regained possession of Villers-Cotterêts, the bodies of those who had fallen there were reverently buried. Lieut.-Colonel the Hon. G. Morris, Captain Tisdall of the Irish Guards, Lieut. Geoffrey Lambton, Coldstream Guards, and Lieut. G. E. Cecil, Grenadier Guards, were buried together, and a cross was put up by the French with the following inscription:

Ici reposent
Quatre officiers de l'Armée Anglaise.
Le Colonel l'honorable George Morris. R.I.P.
Le Capitaine C. A. Tisdall, de la garde Irlandaise.
Le Lieut. Geoffrey Lambton.
Le Lieut. George E. Cecil, des Grenadiers de la Garde.

Transcriber's Notes:

Missing or obscured punctuation was silently corrected.

Typographical errors were silently corrected.

Inconsistent spelling and hyphenation were made consistent only when a predominant form was found in this book.

Footnotes have been collected at the end of the text, and are linked for ease of reference.