Part 1

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Transcriber's note:

Obvious printer's errors have been corrected. All other inconsistencies are as in the original. The author's spelling has been preserved.

The missing word "in" has been added in the sentence: However, I detached the Dorsets to move along the canal bank from Gorre and get in touch with the French.

Weatherby, who had cantered off to get in touch with them,...

THE DOINGS OF THE FIFTEENTH INFANTRY BRIGADE AUGUST 1914 TO MARCH 1915

THE DOINGS OF THE FIFTEENTH INFANTRY BRIGADE AUGUST 1914 TO MARCH 1915

Its Commander

Brigadier-General COUNT GLEICHEN, (now Major-General Lord Edward Gleichen), K.C.V.O., C.B., C.M.G., D.S.O.

William Blackwood & Sons Edinburgh and London 1917

NOTE.

The following pages--not in the first instance intended for publication--contain an expanded version of the very scrappy Diary which I kept in France from day to day.

The version was intended for private home consumption only, and has necessarily had to be pruned of certain personal matters before being allowed to make its bow to the public. I have purposely refrained from adding to it in the light of subsequent events.

I trust that the reader will consequently bear in mind the essentially individual and impressionist aspects of this little work, and will not expect to find either rigidly historical, professional, or critical matter therein.

G. 14th August 1917.

CONTENTS.

Pages Up to the Eve of Mons................................ 1-21

The Battle of Mons.................................. 22-38

Mons to Le Cateau................................... 39-43

Le Cateau........................................... 44-56

The Retreat......................................... 57-86

The Advance......................................... 87-93

The Marne.......................................... 94-102

To the Aisne...................................... 103-111

The Aisne......................................... 112-140

Westward Ho!...................................... 141-149

Abbeville to Bethune.............................. 150-157

Givenchy and Festubert............................ 158-198