Ypres and the neighbouring country where the First Battle of Ypres was fought, October and November 1914 [84]
Route taken by the First Battalion Grenadier Guards through Belgium in October 1914 [90]
The Grenadier Guards at Ypres [142]
Battle of Neuve Chapelle, March 11, 1915 [226]
Neuve Chapelle, March 12, 1915 [235]
Neuve Chapelle, March 13, 1915 [241]
Festubert—Position on the evening of May 17, 1915 [248]
Battle of Loos, September 26, 1915 [298]
CHAPTER I
THE SITUATION BEFORE THE WAR
When the Archduke Francis Ferdinand of Austria was assassinated at Sarajevo in Serbia on June 28, 1914, it never for a moment occurred to any one in this country that the crime could in any way affect the destinies of the First or Grenadier Regiment of Footguards. No one dreamed that, before another year had passed, not only would the three Battalions be fighting in a European war, but there would even be a 4th Battalion at the front, in addition to a 5th Reserve Battalion of almost unwieldy proportions.