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However, I detached the Dorsets to move along the canal bankfrom Gorre and get in touch with the French.
Weatherby, who had cantered off to get in touch with them,...
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The Doings of the
Fifteenth Infantry Brigade
August 1914 to March 1915
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.
The Doings of the
Fifteenth Infantry Brigade
August 1914 to March 1915
BY
ITS COMMANDER
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
NOTE.
The following pages—not in the first instance intended forpublication—contain an expanded version of the very scrappy Diarywhich I kept in France from day to day.
The version was intended for private home consumption only, and hasnecessarily had to be pruned of certain personal matters before beingallowed to make its bow to the public. I have purposely refrained fromadding to it in the light of subsequent events.
I trust that the reader will consequently bear in mind the essentiallyindividual and impressionist aspects of this little