Impressions and Experiences of a French Trooper, 1914-1915

by Christian Mallet

[4] These were darts and position-indicating rockets.

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INDEX

• A
• Agadir, [17]
• Alaire, Captain, killed, [52]
• Allies, rally of, at Verberie, [79]
• —— meeting of, [133]
• Alquier, orders received from, [161]
• Arneke, [141]
• Arras, [141]
• Authée, bivouac near, [36]
• —— departure from, [36]
• Ave, French dragoons billeted at, [34]
• —— French squadron ambushed at, [35]
• —— French departure from, [35]
• B
• Baron, [85], [86]
• —— Château of, pillaged by Germans, [86]
• Basteigne, [29], [34]
• Bavarians, atrocities of, [76], [77]
• Bazeille, burning of, by Germans, 1870, [17]
• Beauraing, arrival of French at, [35]
• —— departure of French from, [35]
• —— ambush at, [35]
• Belgium, welcome and hospitality of villages, [27], [28], [29]
• —— re-entered by French, [96]
• —— departure from, [140]
• Biesmérée, bivouac at, [38]
• Billancourt, infantry action near, [87]
• Bonneuil-en-Valois, surprise attack by Germans at, [51], [52]
• Bülow, Count von, [60]
• C
• Calonne-sur-la-Lys, [96]
• Cary, General Langle de, [44], [71]
• Cavalry, French, equipment of, [23]
• Chapin, Major, [106]
• Charleroi, [39]
• Chasseurs-à-cheval, charge of, [45]
• Chatelin, Lieut., [39], [67], [82], [127], [129]
• Chauvenet, Lieut., killed, [35]
• Chocques, enemy sighted at, [90]
• —— artillery action at, [91]
• Clarques, return of French troops to, [112]
• Clère, Lieut., [18], [123]
• Compiègne, forest of, [63]
• —— ambushed in, [63-5]
• —— adventures in, [65-9]
• Coxyde, [112]
• D
• Dangel, Sergeant-Major, death of, [64]
• Desonney, Lieut., [106]
• Dinant, siege of, by Germans, [36]
• —— arrival of French wounded from, [37]
• Dragoon, funeral of a, [124-5]
• E
• Epehy, arrival at, [41]
• —— burning of, by Germans, [41]
• Estaires, evacuation of, [93]
• —— attack at, [95]
• —— cemetery of, [94]
• Estrée-Saint-Denis, [84], [87]
• d’Estrey, General, [71]
• F
• Florennes, arrival at, [37]
• Foch, General, [60], [71]
• —— address by, [141-3]
• —— army of, [44]
• Folies, [90]
• Franchet, General, [71]
• French, General Lord John, [71]
• Fuéminville, [35]
• G
• Gembloux, retreat from, [31]
• —— triumphal entry into, [39]
• Germans, atrocities of, [32-4], [76-7], [83-4]
• —— cavalry of, [31], [34], [87]
• —— flight of, [34]
• —— retreat of, [43]
• Gilocourt, [82], [86]
• Gorgue, La, [95]
• Grossain killed, [157]
• H
• Hausen, [60]
• Hill 70, [145]
• Hougled, entry of, by French, [97]
• —— infantry and artillery attacks at, [98-101]
• J
• Johannes Father, quotation from, [150]
• Jouillié, Major, [49], [56], [83]
• L
• Lametz, Captain, [139]
• Landelies, arrival at, [40]
• Laperrade, [18]
• Lens road, French advance towards, [146]
• —— German lines carried near, [154]
• —— redan blown up, [149]
• Liége, arrival of French dragoons at, [31]
• Lille-Arras, front of, [145]
• Lombaertzyde, bombardment of, [128]
• Loos, French attack at, [150-5]
• —— German counter-attack at, [159]
• —— preparations for attack at, [144-7]
• Lubeké, [35]
• Lys, bridge of, evacuated, [93]
• M
• Magrin, Lieut., [18], [102], [104], [105]
• Mahot, Captain, [113], [116]
• Maindreville, M. de, German atrocities at château of, [83]
• Marne, battle of, [43]
• Maugenot, [139], [160]
• —— report to, [149]
• Maunoury, General, army of, [44], [47], [71]
• Mazingarbe, relieved trenches at, [144]
• —— divisional dressing station at, [162]
• Montcalm killed, [36]
• Muno, arrival of French cavalry at, [26]
• N
• Nesle, infantry action near, [87]
• Nieuport-Ville, road to, [113]
• —— bombardment of, [114-17], [119]
• —— billeted at, [116-18]
• —— scenes at, [114-19]
• Nœux-les-Mines, wounded sent to, [144], [163]
• Noyelette, resting at, [144]
• O
• Oise River, crossing of, [84]
• Ostdinkerque, [113]
• Outersteene, Belgian manifestations to French, [96]
• P
• Paris, retreat of French cavalry towards, [41]
• Parvillers, [88]
• Petit, Corporal, [154]
• Polignac, [18]
• Poperinghe, [131]
• Prussians, capture of Staff Officers, [48]
• R
• Règues, Lieut., [156]
• Rheims Cathedral, [14], [16]
• —— departure from, [13]
• —— scenes at, [20], [21], [23], [25]
• Roberts, Lord, funeral of, [110-12]
• Robillot, Colonel, [21], [24]
• S
• Saint-Martin, bivouac at, [38]
• Saint-Omer, [110]
• Salverte, Captain de, [56], [68], [82], [84]
• Staden, village of, fighting at, [97], [108]
• Stivalet, [147-8]
• T
• Tarragon, Captain de, [56], [65], [83], [85], [86], [102], [103], [104]
• —— death of, [105]
• Taube drops bombs, [50]
• Taubes at Gembloux, [39]
• Teint, [58]
• Troène, fighting at, [45]
• U
• Uhlans, [35], [56], [57], [62]
• V
• Verberie, rally of French troops, at, [79], [80], [82]
• —— scenes at, [74-84]
• Vigoureux, Captain, [112], [117]
• Villers-Carbonel, artillery combat at, [41]
• —— in flames, [41]
• Villers-Cotterets, forest of, [49-51]
• —— loss of French machine-guns at, [50]
• —— fighting at, [51-4]
• —— in hiding in, [54-7]
• —— retreat from, [57-9]
• Von Kluck, General, army of, [47]
• W
• Walloon district, the, [26]
• Y
• Ypres, [131]
• —— Cloth Hall at, [132]
• —— Cathedral, at, [132]
• —— scenes at, [132-3]
• —— in the trenches near, [134-40]
• Yser, [74], [123]
• Z
• Zonnebeck, [133]