d 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

To Bailleul....................................... 199-205

To Ypres.......................................... 206-208

The First Battle of Ypres......................... 209-248

Back to Locre..................................... 249-251

Trench Life Opposite Messines..................... 252-280

Giving Up Command................................. 281-283

SKETCH-MAPS.

Page
Boussu-Wasmes.......................................... 28

Missy-on-Aisne........................................ 123

Givenchy-Violaines.................................... 167

The Footbridge over the Canal......................... 175

Beukenhorst (near Ypres).............................. 211

The Messines Front.................................... 255

ILLUSTRATION.

Some of Brigade Headquarters _Frontispiece_

The Doings of the Fifteenth