[6] ‘2000 British’ belonged to the newly raised Royal Naval Division which had been thrown into Antwerp in the endeavour to prolong the resistance of that fortress.
[7] The XXIV Reserve Corps was sent to the neighbourhood of Metz.
[8] Only the British III Corps and Cavalry Corps of two Divisions were available to oppose them.
[9] These ‘considerable hostile forces’ consisted of the 7th Division and Byng’s Cavalry Division, which reached Ypres on 14th October, after having moved up to Ghent to help cover the retreat of the Belgian army from Antwerp.
[10] Needless to point out that General Joffre was never ‘Allied Commander.’
[11] At this date Calais had not yet become a base for the British army, and there were no British establishments of any kind there.
[12] The II Corps completed its detrainment at Abbeville on 8th October, and moved forward, covered by the cavalry, on the 11th; by the 18th it had reached the line Givenchy-Villaines-Lorgies-Herlies after considerable fighting.
[13] On 18th October the III Corps had its left Division, the 4th, astride the Lys from Ploegsteert Wood to Frelinghien, while the 6th Division on the right had reached the line Premesques-Ennettières-Radinghem (S.E. of Armentières). General Conneau’s French Cavalry Corps filled the gap between its right and the left of the II Corps.
[14] The British Cavalry Corps (there was only one, the number is superfluous and suggests there were more) did not extend as far as Gheluvelt: its left was on the Ypres-Comines canal near Houthem.
[15] The I Corps did not reach Bixschoote on 18th October: its leading Division, the 2nd, did not reach the area Poperinghe-Boeschepe till 19th October: the 1st Division was still detraining in the Hazebrouck area on 18th October.