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, B.E.F., and sudden death of, 16, 20, 37, 39, 62; character sketch of, 37; successor appointed, 38, 61-2. Groote Vierstraat, H.Q. 1st Cavalry Division, 246. Grosetti, General, G.O.C. French 16th Corps, 324. Guest, Captain the Hon. Frederick, D.S.O., A.D.C. to French, 357, 360. Guise, German defeat at, 91. Guise-La Fere line held by 5th French army after Aug. 29, 91. Guns, and Machine Guns, _see also_ Heavy Artillery, Losses of, at Le Cateau, 78-9, 87, 153; Shortage of, 321; one cause of, 101; the view of the War Council on, 309-10; controverted by French, 316; results, 322, 332-3. Haddon, Sir Charles, Master-General of Ordnance, visit from; need for Heavy Artillery urged on by French, 62-3. Haig, Lieut.-General (now Field-Marshal) Sir Douglas, K.C.B., G.O.C. First Army Corps, B.E.F., 16, 17, 248, 260; at the Council of War of Aug. 5, 1914, 3; views of, on landing of B.E.F., 6; positions occupied by, on and after Aug. 21, 47; in the Retreat from Mons, 75, 82, 85; German pressure on, 104, 109; operations of, at the Battle of the Marne, 118, 119, 122; the forcing of the passage of the Petit Morin, 125-6; military qualities of, 159, 279, 280; instructions to, on Oct. 19, 225-6; conferences with, at Ypres, 233; at Hooge, 239, 247, 249; share of in the 1st Battle of Ypres, 242, 243, 244, 260 _sqq._; the driving back of his 1st Division, 251, 252; the line re-established, 255-6; messages from (Nov. 2), on rest for the tired troops, 265; the situation on Nov. 11-12, saved by, in the first place, 280; in reserve, 283, 284; Commanding in the Festubert area, 328; First Army formed and placed under, 337. Hainault, Province of, 48; Mons, the capital of, 53. Haine River, course, valley, affluents, and passage across, 48-9, 50. Haking, Brigadier-General R., C.B., G.O.C. 5th Infantry Brigade, 19. Haldane, Brigadier-General J. A. L., G.O.C. 10th Infantry Brigade, 26; later as Major-General, G.O.C. 3rd Division, 20, 26, 323. Haldane, Rt. Hon. Viscount, and the _Entente_, 3; and War possibilities (in 1908), 8; and the O.T.C., 272; and the creation of the Territorial Forces, 291-2, 296; Divisional Organisation devised and carried through by; st
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