The Children's Story of the War Volume 4 (of 10) / The Story of the Year 1915
How sleep the brave, who sink to rest By all their country's wishes blest! When Spring, with dewy fingers cold, Returns to deck their hallowed mould, She there shall dress a sweeter sod Than Fancy's feet have ever trod.
By fairy hands their knell is rung; By forms unseen their dirge is sung; There Honour comes, a pilgrim grey, To bless the turf that wraps their clay; And Freedom shall awhile repair, To dwell, a weeping hermit, there!
William Collins.
In this volume I am going to tell you the story of the war as it unfolded itself during the year 1915. It was a year of life-and-death struggle, during which two other nations were swept by the seething whirlpool into the waters of strife, and eight out of ten persons in the continent of Europe were living under war conditions. It was a year during which the three greatest empires of the world, and seven other Powers, fought fierce and bitter combats on five different battle fronts in Europe alone. It was a year in which some millions of men fell on the stricken field, and yet the issue of the vast and terrible struggle remained undecided.
It was a year in which the Allies, who were quite unready when war was forced upon them, strained every nerve to set their military houses in order; to enlist and train for the field their reserves of manhood; and to furnish themselves with those weapons and munitions in which they were deficient. It was a year in which millions of hard-earned money were spent every day, and the combatants piled up mountains of debt for future generations to pay off.
It was a year during which the Allies had good cause to thank God for the long years of peaceful industry which had given Britain great riches, and for the splendid navy which maintained for her the freedom of the seas. Britain's vast reserves of wealth enabled her to raise plentiful money for carrying on the war, and thanks to her navy her merchant ships were able to carry the products of her mines, mills, and factories to other lands. Great Britain alone of all the combatants was thus able to produce wealth in time of war, and to assist her sorely-hampered friends with timely loans.
Edward Parrott
THE
SIR EDWARD PARROTT, M.A., LL.D.
VOLUME IV.
THOMAS NELSON AND SONS, Ltd.
The Sinking of the Bluecher—January 24, 1915.
CONTENTS.
SETTING THE HOUSE IN ORDER.
The Modern Pied Piper.
Queen Elizabeth of Belgium visiting a Hospital.
The "Prince George" Motor Ambulance.
THE LOSS OF THE "FORMIDABLE."
Captain Loxley giving his Last Order as the "Formidable" went down.
THE BATTLE OF THE DOGGER BANK.
The Suez Canal at El Kantara.
THE TURKISH DESCENT UPON EGYPT.
WINTER WARFARE ON THE WESTERN FRONT.—I.
WINTER WARFARE ON THE WESTERN FRONT.—II.
The Fighting in Givenchy Village.
STORIES FROM THE BATTLEFIELD.
"The Three Musketeers" of Princess Patricia's Own.
The Great Exploit of Lance-Corporal Michael O'Leary.
THE GERMAN SUCCESS AT SOISSONS.
WINTER FIGHTING IN CHAMPAGNE, THE ARGONNE, AND THE VOSGES.
French Infantry returning to their Quarters after driving the Germans from their Trenches near St. Mihiel.
Chasseurs Alpins attacking a Custom House in the High Vosges.
THE SUBMARINE BLOCKADE BEGINS.
THE SINKING OF THE "LUSITANIA."
On the Face of the Waters—after the Sinking of the "Lusitania."
STORIES OF SUBMARINES.
Lieutenant Guy D'Oyly Hughes starting off with his Raft.
MORE STORIES OF SUBMARINE WARFARE.
The End of a Submarine.
WINTER FIGHTING IN POLAND AND EAST PRUSSIA.
The Russians retaking a Trench before Bolimov.
A BATTLE OF THE MIDDLE AGES.
THE FALL OF PRZEMYSL.
The Fall of Przemysl.
STORIES FROM EASTERN BATTLEFIELDS.
THE BATTLE OF NEUVE CHAPELLE.
The Battle of Neuve Chapelle.
The Rifle Brigade racing headlong through the Ruins of Neuve Chapelle during the Attack on the Village.
Neuve Chapelle, March 10, 1915.
SOLDIERS' STORIES OF NEUVE CHAPELLE.
Bengal Lancers returning from "Port Arthur" after the capture of Neuve Chapelle.
Lieutenant Cyril Martin and his grenade-throwing party in the enemy's trenches.
The "Prince George" Motor Ambulance at Buckingham Palace.
THE DARDANELLES.
SHIPS VERSUS FORTS.
HOW WE FAILED AT THE "NARROWS."
The Irresistible and the Ocean in Action.
THE STORY OF HILL 60.
Hill 60.
The first Territorial to win the V.C. An heroic Exploit on Hill 60.
THE POISONOUS CLOUD.
Second Battle of Ypres.
THE BATTLE GLORY OF CANADA.
Gassed!
The Fight in the Wood by Moonlight. Canadian Scottish and the 10th Infantry recapture lost guns at the point of the bayonet.
The Charge of the 4th Canadian Battalion.
DAYS OF STRUGGLE AND ANXIETY.—I.
Second Battle of Ypres.
Second Battle of Ypres.
DAYS OF STRUGGLE AND ANXIETY.—II.
"All that was left of them."
Second Battle of Ypres.
The Northumberland Fusiliers (the Fighting Fifth) beating off a German Attack.
HEROES OF THE YPRES SALIENT.
Lance-Sergeant Belcher and his Men holding a battered Breastwork.
THE BATTLE OF THE ARTOIS.—I.
THE BATTLE OF THE ARTOIS.—II.
A French Bayonet Charge in the "Labyrinth."
THE BATTLE OF FESTUBERT.
Playing their Comrades up to the Germans: the Pipers of the Black Watch at Richebourg.
THE HEROISMS OF FESTUBERT.
THE GALLIPOLI PENINSULA.
THE BATTLE OF THE LANDING.
How the Five Beaches—Y, X, W, V, and S—were stormed and the British and French landed on the Gallipoli Peninsula, Sunday, April 25, 1915.
The Lancashire Fusiliers landing on Beach W.
HEROES OF THE LANDING.
"In files they lay, like the mower's swathes at close of day." A Turkish Column wiped out by the Inniskilling Fusiliers.
BATTERING AT THE BARRIERS.
A SPLENDID FAILURE.
The "Anzac" Front.
How Lieutenant Forshaw won the V.C.
THE STORM BURSTS.
The Tornado of Fire which beat down upon the Russian Trenches on May 1, 1915.
A Night Scene before the City of Warsaw. An Engagement in Front of the doomed Capital.
STORIES OF THE GREAT RETREAT.
Where the Cossacks score: a Cavalry Skirmish in the Rear of the Russian Retreat.
FROM STORM TO CALM.
Map illustrating the various Stages of the Russian Retreat.
The Tsar and Tsarevitch with the Russian Army.
The Coming of the Big Guns that mean Victory.
MIDSUMMER ON THE WESTERN FRONT.
The Canadians in a Hot Corner.
Plan of the Hooge Area.
The Liverpool Scottish and other Regiments charging at Hooge.
Rushing a British Gun through the deserted streets of Ypres to a hard-pressed position on the Salient.
The September Battle in Champagne.
IN CHAMPAGNE.
THE BATTLE OF LOOS.—I.
The Storming of Loos Road Redoubt.
THE BATTLE OF LOOS.—II.
British Troops swarming over the German First Line Trenches and dashing onwards towards Loos, the "Tower Bridge," and Hill 70.
A Scottish Highlander rescuing a French Girl in the Village of Loos.
BRAVEST OF THE BRAVE.—I.
Piper Daniel Laidlaw outside the British Trench playing "Blue Bonnets over the Border" to hearten his comrades to the Attack.
BRAVEST OF THE BRAVE.—II.
His Majesty the King and Lance-Sergeant Oliver Brooks.
The Martyrdom of Edith Cavell.
THE WAR IN THE AIR.
A German Machine brought down and fired by a British Battle-plane.
HEROES OF THE AIR.
THE COMING OF THE ZEPPELINS.
Sub-Lieutenant Warneford bombing a Zeppelin in Mid-air.
THE OVERRUNNING OF SERBIA.
"Remote, unfriended, melancholy, slow."
END OF VOLUME IV.
