Footnote 22: It does indeed seem extraordinary now that in those strenuous days of 1914 we only had about three machine-guns to two battalions. Nowadays we should have at least twenty![(Back to main text)]
Footnote 23: What would now be known as "trench feet."[(Back to main text)]
Footnote 24: The victor of Baghdad.[(Back to main text)]
Footnote 25: Locally pronounced Mersé.[(Back to main text)]
Footnote 26: He had received the V.C. for a particularly plucky piece of raft work under heavy fire at Missy.[(Back to main text)]
Footnote 27: He is now (1917) Major-General.[(Back to main text)]
Footnote 28: They lost 2400 men out of not quite 4000 in a fortnight in April.[(Back to main text)]
Footnote 29: Now (1917) commanding a Brigade.[(Back to main text)]
Footnote 30: The Dorset one had been promoted.[(Back to main text)]