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

Chapter 5: MAPS

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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.

MAPS

Route of the Second Battalion, 1914, and the Mons Area, 1914 16

Route taken by the Second Battalion Grenadier Guards during the Retreat from Mons, and subsequent advance to the Marne and the Aisne, 1914 24

Sketch plan of Landrecies, August 25, 1914 28

Engagement at Villers-Cotterêts, September 1, 1914 34

Battle of the Marne—Position of the British Army on September 8, 1914 46

The Passage of the Aisne, September 14, 1914 58

Ypres and the neighbouring country where the First Battle of Ypres was fought, October and November 1914 84

Route taken by the First Battalion Grenadier Guards through Belgium in October 1914 90

The Grenadier Guards at Ypres 142

Battle of Neuve Chapelle, March 11, 1915 226

Neuve Chapelle, March 12, 1915 235

Neuve Chapelle, March 13, 1915 241

Festubert—Position on the evening of May 17, 1915 248

Battle of Loos, September 26, 1915 298