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WITH CAVALRY IN 1915
WITH CAVALRY
IN 1915
THE BRITISH TROOPER
IN THE TRENCH LINE
Through the Second Battle of Ypres
BY
FREDERIC COLEMAN, F.R.G.S.
(Author of "From Mons to Ypres with French")
ILLUSTRATED
LONDON
SAMPSON LOW, MARSTON & CO., LIMITED
1916
LONDON:
PRINTED BY WILLIAM CLOWES AND SONS, LIMITED,
DUKE STREET, STAMFORD STREET, S.E., AND GREAT WINDMILL STREET, W.
TO
MY WIFE
Whose bravery and self-sacrifice in the face of trying
circumstances made it possible for me so long
to continue to do the little that lay
in my power to help the
Cause we both
thought
JUST AND RIGHT.
AUTHOR'S PREFACE.
The more than kind reception that Press andPublic accorded my first book on the War,"From Mons to Ypres with French," hasencouraged me to put together a chronicle offurther events.
"With Cavalry in 1915" takes up thethread of its narrative where its predecessorleft it—with the closing days of 1914.
If some notes of frank criticism have beenincluded in this volume, it has been with nounkindly feeling, or with any other object thanto try to give a fair picture of things at theFront as I saw them.
My unbounded admiration for the splendidsoldiers of the British Army, gained in thedarker days of the Great Retreat from Mons,has never wavered in its allegiance to them.
Never have I had occasion to change myopinion, formed in the first few weeks of theWar, that the British Tommy is worth five orsix of any German soldiers with whom he hasyet come into contact.
In the machinery and organisation of war,the small British Army was at a disadvantage,particularly when faced with the necessity ofgreat and rapid expansion. That mistakesshould have been made was more than natural—itwas inevitable.
I would not be so presumptuous as tocriticise so freely, but that "the old orderchangeth": to write of the