| The Author | Frontispiece |
| FACING PAGE | |
| Members of the Staff outside the headquarters of the 1st Cavalry Division | [8] |
| Between Philosophe and Vermelles; on the left, the château wall | [9] |
| A bird's-eye view of shattered Vermelles, January, 1915 | [28] |
| Major Desmond Fitzgerald of the Lancers and a gas-pipe trench-mortar | [29] |
| A Winter Cavalry shelter in France | [32] |
| Construction of Cavalry shelter in France | [33] |
| The Rue de Menin in March 1915, looking west over the Menin Bridge across the canal moat | [54] |
| Officers under the stone lion on the Menin Bridge at Ypres | [55] |
| The Grande Place at Ypres and the Cloth Hall, March, 1915 | [66] |
| The Choir of the ruined Ypres Cathedral | [67] |
| Scenes of battle of olden time in colours on the shattered walls of Ypres Cloth Hall | [70] |
| A communication trench leading to the front line position in the Sanctuary Wood | [71] |
| Officers of Lancers in their dug-outs in the front line trenches | [86] |
| A dug-out in front of Zillebeke | [87] |
| The Zillebeke Church, March 1915 | [92] |
| German prisoners in Ypres, captured after the explosion of a British mine near Hooge | [93] |
| Damage caused by a 17-inch shell in Poperinghe, April, 1915 | [150] |
| Red Cross ambulances on the coast | [151] |
| A French "75" in the mud of a Flanders beet-field | [172] |
| An ambulance which was struck by a shell while carrying wounded from east of Ypres | [172] |
| View showing depth of 17-inch shell-hole in the garden of a château between Poperinghe and Elverdinghe. | [173] |
| Staff Officers at lunch | [176] |
| Looking east over the Menin Bridge at the edge of Ypres | [177] |
| Dragoon Guards resting in the huts at Vlamertinghe | [212] |
| Graves of Capt. Annesley, Lieut. Drake, and Capt. Peto, all of the 10th Hussars, in a graveyard on the Menin Road | [213] |
| Officers of the Cavalry Corps | [218] |
| A typical farm in Flanders, in which British soldiers were billeted | [219] |
| Hussars' cook-house, Vlamertinghe huts, Vlamertinghe. | [248] |
| Group of Cavalry Officers at the huts at Vlamertinghe. | [249] |
| View of the 13th century château at Esquelbecque | [260] |
| "Jeff" Phipps-Hornby and Frederic Coleman comparing underpinning outside Ypres, May, 1915: the thinnest and thickest "supports" in the 1st Cavalry Division | [261] |
| Map | [296] |
WITH CAVALRY IN 1915.
[CHAPTER I.]
January 1st, 1915, found me in damp, sodden Flanders. I was one of the dozen remaining members of the original Royal Automobile Club Corps, which had joined the British Expeditionary Force in France before Mons and the great retreat on Paris.
I was attached, with my car, to the Headquarters Staff of the 1st Cavalry Division, Major-General H. de B. de Lisle, C.B., D.S.O., commanding. The Echelon A Divisional Staff Mess consisted of General de Lisle; Colonel "Sally" Home, 11th Hussars, G.S.O. 1; Major Percy Hambro, 15th Hussars, G.S.O. 2; Captain Cecil Howard, 16th Lancers, G.S.O. 3; Major Wilfred Jelf, R.H.A., Divisional Artillery Commander; Captain "Mouse" Tomkinson, "Royals," A.P.M.; Captain Hardress Lloyd, 4th Dragoon Guards, A.D.C.; Lieutenant "Pat" Armstrong, 10th Hussars, A.D.C., and myself.