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)]