L. de St A. J. T. W. G. A. L. M.-B. R. E. B. photo by Lieut. H. M. Cadell, R.E. SOME OF BRIGADE HEADQUARTERS. BY...

Brigadier-General COUNT GLEICHEN, (now Major-General Lord Edward Gleichen ), K.C.V.O. , C.B. , C.M.G. , D.S.O. William Blackwood & Sons Edinburgh and London 1917...

The following pages—not in the first instance intended for publication—contain an expanded version of the very scrappy Diary which I kept in France from day to day. The version was intended for private home consumption only, and has necessarily had to be pruned of certain personal matters before being allowed to make its bow to the public. I have purposely refrained from adding to it in the light of subsequent events. I trust that the reader will consequently bear in mind the essentially individ

In accordance with the order received at Belfast at 5.30 P.M. on the 4th, the 15th Brigade started mobilizing on the 5th August 1914, and by the 10th was complete in all respects. We were practically ready by the 9th, but a machine-gun or two and some harness were a bit late arriving from Dublin—not our fault. Everything had already been rehearsed at mobilization inspections, held as usual in the early summer, and all went like clock-work. On the 8th we got our final orders to embark on the 14th

Footnote 1: 1st Batt. (Lieut.-Col. D. C. Boger). (Back to main text) Footnote 2: 1st Batt. (Lieut.-Col. C. R. Griffith, D.S.O. ). (Back to main text) Footnote 3: 1st Batt. (Lieut.-Col. L. J. Bols, D.S.O. ). (Back to main text) Footnote 4: 1st Batt. (Lieut.-Col. C. R. Ballard). (Back to main text) Footnote 5: Hyslop was very severely wounded six days afterwards and taken prisoner, but exchanged later on. (Back to main text) Footnote 6: He was subsequently awarded the D.S.O. and Croix de Guerre (a