TO MY CAPTAIN
COUNT J. DE TARRAGON
AND
TO MY TWO COMRADES
2nd LIEUT. MAGRIN and 2nd LIEUT. CLÈRE
WITH WHOM
MANY PAGES OF THIS BOOK ARE CONCERNED
WHO FELL
ALL THREE ON THE FIELD OF HONOUR
IN DEFENCE
OF THEIR COUNTRY
“Dragons que Rome eut pris pour des Légionnaires.”
CONTENTS
| PAGE | ||
| Frontispiece | [9] | |
| The 22nd Regiment of Dragoons | [11] | |
| CHAPTER | ||
| I. | —Mobilisation—Farewells—We leave Rheims | [13] |
| II. | —Across the Border into Belgium—Life on Active Service from Day to Day—After the Germans had Passed through—The Retreat | [26] |
| III. | —How we Crossed the German Lines—The Charge of Gilocourt—The Escape in the Forest of Compiègne | [43] |
| IV. | —Verberie the Centre of the Rally—The Epic of a Young Girl—Mass in the Open Air—From Day to Day | [74] |
| V. | —The Two Glorious Days of Staden | [97] |
| VI. | —The Funeral of Lord Roberts—Nieuport-Ville—In the Trenches—Ypres and the Neighbouring Sectors—I Transfer to the Line | [110] |
| VII. | —The Attack at Loos | [144] |
| Index | [165] |