The Doings of the Fifteenth Infantry Brigade: August 1914 to March 1915

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,...
Accessibility: Expansions of abbreviations have been provided using the <abbr> tag, and changes in language are marked. Speech rendering will be improved if voices for the following languages are available: fr, de, nl.

L. de St A. J. T. W. G. A. L. M.-B. R. E. B. photo by Lieut. H. M. Cadell, R.E. SOME OF BRIGADE HEADQUARTERS.
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
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.