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THE FIRST SEVEN DIVISIONS BEFORE MONS " ^ THEN an entire continent has for eighteen * * months been convulsed by military operations on so vast a scale as almost to bafHe imagination, the individual achievements of this division or of that division are apt to fade quickly out of recognition. Fresh scenes peopled by fresh actors hold the public eye, and, in the quick passage of events, the lustre of bygone deeds soon gets blurred. People forget. But when the deeds are such as to bring a thrill of national pride ; when they set up an all but unique standard of valour for future generations to live up to, it is best not to forget. On the outbreak of war with Germany on August 3rd, 1914, the British Army was so small as to be a mere drop in the ocean of armed men who were hurrying to confront one another on the plains of Belgium. It was derisively described as " contemptible." And yet, in the
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CONTENTS; PACE; PREFACE V; BEFORE MONS I; THE BATTLE OF MONS 12; THE RETREAT FROM MONS (LANDRECIES AND; MAROILLES) « 33; THE LE CATEAU PROBLEM 50; LE CATEAU 55; THE RETREAT FROM LE CATEAU (viLLERS-; COTTERETS AND NERY) 66; THE ADVANCE TO THE AISNE 84; THE PASSAGE OF THE AISNE 96; TROYON (VERNEUIL AND SOUPIr) I03; THE AISNE I20; MANOEUVRING WESTWARD 141; FROM ATTACK TO DEFENCE I59; THE BIRTH OF THE YPRES SALIENT , l6z; THE STAND OF THE FIFTH DIVISION l8o; NEUVE CHAPELLE I92; P ILK EM 203; THE SECOND ADVANCE 209; THE FIGHTING AT KRUISEIK 218; THE LAST OF KRUISEIK 23O; ZANDVOORDE 249; CIIELUVELT 257; MESSINES AND WYTSCHATE 265; KLEIN ZILLEBEKE 278; THE RELIEF OF THE SEVENTH DIVISION 285; ZWARTELEN 294; THE PRUSSIAN GUARD ATTACK 303; EPITAPH 310; The following abbreviations are used :-; The C in C = Field Marshal Sir John French; AC => Army Corps CB Cavalry Brigade; KOSB ^ King's Own Scottish Borderers; KOYLI = King's Own Yorkshire Light; Infantry; KRR = King's Royal Rifles (6oth); LIST OF MAPS; Showing the
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