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Footnote 1: 1st Batt. (Lieut.-Col. D. C. Boger).[(Back to main text)]
Footnote 2: 1st Batt. (Lieut.-Col. C. R. Griffith, D.S.O.).[(Back to main text)]
Footnote 3: 1st Batt. (Lieut.-Col. L. J. Bols, D.S.O.).[(Back to main text)]
Footnote 4: 1st Batt. (Lieut.-Col. C. R. Ballard).[(Back to main text)]
Footnote 5: Hyslop was very severely wounded six days afterwards and taken prisoner, but exchanged later on.[(Back to main text)]
Footnote 6: He was subsequently awarded the D.S.O. and Croix de Guerre (aux Palmes) for excellent and gallant work achieved under fire.[(Back to main text)]
Footnote 7: Commanding of course the 2nd Corps (composed of the 3rd and 5th Divisions).[(Back to main text)]
Footnote 8: So called because similar guns in the South African war had been drawn by oxen.[(Back to main text)]
Footnote 9: Commanding the Norfolk's.[(Back to main text)]
Footnote 10: I grieve very much to see that he was fatally wounded outside Ypres (15th May 1916).[(Back to main text)]
Footnote 11: They are still there (August 1917)![(Back to main text)]
Footnote 12: Nearly halfway to Violaines.[(Back to main text)]
Footnote 13: Who had been with me as a Major in Belfast—a most capable officer, now (1917) commanding a Division.[(Back to main text)]
Footnote 14: Temporarily commanding 13th Brigade.[(Back to main text)]
Footnote 15: I was struck with his wonderful command of English—not the trace of any accent.[(Back to main text)]
Footnote 16: My late Brigade-Major at Belfast, now, alas! killed (on the Somme, 1916).[(Back to main text)]
Footnote 17: Really only a half roofed-in little trench, marked H on the map.[(Back to main text)]
Footnote 18: "Stirling Castle" on our present maps.[(Back to main text)]
Footnote 19: To everybody's great regret, he was killed in October 1915.[(Back to main text)]
Footnote 20: This is a fact, though I cannot explain it.[(Back to main text)]
Footnote 21: My old battalion.[(Back to main text)]
Footnote 22: It does indeed seem extraordinary now that in those strenuous days of 1914 we only had about three machine-guns to two battalions. Nowadays we should have at least twenty![(Back to main text)]
Footnote 23: What would now be known as "trench feet."[(Back to main text)]
Footnote 24: The victor of Baghdad.[(Back to main text)]
Footnote 25: Locally pronounced Mersé.[(Back to main text)]
Footnote 26: He had received the V.C. for a particularly plucky piece of raft work under heavy fire at Missy.[(Back to main text)]
Footnote 27: He is now (1917) Major-General.[(Back to main text)]
Footnote 28: They lost 2400 men out of not quite 4000 in a fortnight in April.[(Back to main text)]
Footnote 29: Now (1917) commanding a Brigade.[(Back to main text)]
Footnote 30: The Dorset one had been promoted.[(Back to main text)]