ILLUSTRATIONS

Military policeman making notes Frontispiece

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21-cm. mortars firing at Septsarges 70

A service wagon at Stenay 71

Field-marshal General von Haeseler and General von Mudra at Eclisfontaine 96

Wrecked houses at Dun on the bank of the Meuse 97

A food column composed of commandeered farmers’ carts 112

Bank clerk from Blois. Prisoner at Dun 113

Road across bridge at Dun 114

Landwehr soldier, gaoler at Dun 115

The Crown Prince’s headquarters at Stenay 116

Street in Longuyon 117

Wooded height between Sedan and Donchery 130

Houses wrecked by shells at Donchery 131

Diagram showing organisation on lines of communication 142

German infantry 143

Infantry reservists on the fringe of a wood at Rouvroy 146

A dressing wagon had halted behind a few dark pines 147

A dressing wagon with hood 148

Four doctors breakfasting under cover of a shelter tent 149

Soldiers under cover of a haystack at Rouvroy 150

Officers’ car at Grandpré } 151

French prisoners carried wounded Germans to the railway station

A chef de musique of the 11th Infantry Regiment, 17th Army Corps, taken prisoner on September 26th, south of Vouziers. Slightly wounded in the head 154

Chambon, thirty years old, French soldier from Perigueux in Dordogne (17th Army Corps). Slightly wounded south of Vouziers 155

Feeding the wounded (the second from the left is Major von Plato) 156

A seriously wounded man carried from the train to the hospital at Sedan } 157

The Uhlans proceed on their way

A squadron of Uhlans halt outside Captain von Behr’s house to await their baggage train 158

Protracted halt of an infantry ammunition column. Shelter tents have been pitched 159

Colonel Fischer at his tripod telescope 161

A field kitchen or Erbsenkanone (“pea-shooter”) 162

“A hero’s death” 163

Ammunition column halting beside a barn 164

Camp scene on a farm at Séchault 165

An ammunition column at Cernay 166

A company ready to start out, receiving its marching instructions 167

Bivouacking food column with horses and covered wagons 170

A field hospital at Condé effectively screened from observation } 171

Kitchen wagons “at work” near Condé

Perot Julien, a 54-year-old peasant charged with plotting, but released through insufficient evidence 172

Saisac of Toulouse, 11th Infantry Regiment (33rd Inf. Div., 17th Army Corps). Prisoner at Vouziers 173

Olive, thirty years old. Infanterie Coloniale, 24ème (2nd Colonial Inf. Div.). Native of Perpignan, Eastern Pyrenees. Prisoner at Vouziers 174

Five Reservists from Bordeaux and Narbonne who fought in Alsace and Champagne, and were captured the 26th and 27th September south of Vouziers. They are busy peeling potatoes. At Vouziers the French prisoners were allowed to cook their soup themselves in order to get the proportion of meat and vegetables that they liked best 175

French prisoners at Vouziers waiting for their dinner 176

German airmen: Capt. Chamier, Lieutenants Count Rambaldi and Bürger, and a fourth. The Iron Cross can be seen on the underside of the left plane 177

A battery of light field howitzers in position 178

A salvo has just been fired. The guns are now being reloaded 179

Observer masked by twigs and branches 180

Scene on the road in front of the observation post 181

Pater Müller, Professor Zinsser and a Franciscan friar 188

French prisoners at Vouziers 189

French prisoners working at the railway station at Vouziers 196

Arms and knapsacks of dead and wounded—Vouziers 197

A doctor, Prof. Capt. Lepsius and a few Sœurs de la Providence in the Convent grounds 205

A group of fugitives 212

On the way to Ghent and the Channel 213

Malines Cathedral, south aspect 220

A house at Malines “laid open” by shell fire 221

Marché aux Souliers a few days after Antwerp’s fall 224

Belgian prisoners at Malines 225

Food column on the way to the ferry, with the Cathedral tower in the background, flying the German flag over the cross 228

Food column crossing the Grand’ Place 229

Marines with a “field kitchen” and a couple of calves 230

Fugitives returning to Malines from the south 231

In front of the Town Hall at Antwerp 234

Infantry halting in front of Antwerp Town Hall 235

Horses and vehicles being brought on board one of the pontoon ferries. The vessels anchored in the fairway were used as pontoons for the bridge which the Anglo-Belgian army threw across for its retreat. When the last man had crossed, the bridge was blown up 236

The transport across the Scheldt } 237

A Belgian gun in the harbour

Louvain Town Hall 240

Some houses only have the walls left standing 241

The interior of Malines Cathedral before the removal of the débris 244

Destruction wrought by “fat Bertha” in Fort St. Catherine 245

The Dutch frontier station at Putten on the way to Bergen-op-Zoom 252

Fugitives returning to Antwerp from Holland 253

Outworks at Dryhoek, blown up by their commandant 260

A German marine on the pontoon ferry at Antwerp 261

A petty officer with a few marines at a street corner in Ostend 274

Military policemen inspecting the damage outside the Majestic Hotel 275

The western end of dining-room at the “Majestic” seen from the street; one shell had crashed through the upper part of the window } 282

A Maubeuge gun doing duty at Middelkerke

A “direct hit” on a house near the Hôtel Littoral 283

Half of Capt.-Lieut. Bess and the whole of the author on the way to Blankenberghe 286

A self-igniting mine explodes 287

Dr. Schönfelder and the author on the dunes at Ostend 288

A traverse at Dorpfeld 289

Group beside one of the guns of Lieut. Haak’s battery. (Furthest to the left are Capt.-Lieut. Bess and Lieut. Haak) 292

Gun crew getting ready to fire on a British destroyer 293

Hole made by a 42-cm. shell in Fort Talaert 300

At the entrance to Fort Talaert 301

The interior of Fort Lierre 304

Privy Councillor von Lumm beside the hole made by a 42-cm. shell 305

Streets at the Porte Douai which have suffered through the bombardment 306

Hereditary Prince Friedrich of Hohenzollern and Duke Adolf Friedrich of Mecklenburg 307

A 15-cm. howitzer battery 310

Of some houses there is only the skeleton left 311

Well-masked guns 314

Gunners studying the news 315

Soldiers reading the latest number of the Bapaumer Zeitung am Mittag 318

Two young ladies are the only civilians to be seen 319

Band playing beside Faidherbe’s statue 340

German soldiers beside the French general’s memorial 341

Tommy Atkins at Roubaix 348

The French waitress and her English customers 349

They were clothed in neat and practical field uniforms 352

Here and there was a slightly wounded soldier 353

The last houses of Kruiseik } 354

A shell crater in the road is being filled in by engineers

Hussar patrol riding through Kruiseik 355

First came a German soldier with an English colonel on his left 358

Then came the convoy 359

The convoy halted just outside the village 362

An English officer on a stretcher placed across a cart 363

Group of officers at Bapaume: The Duke, the Prince, the Chief of Military Police, Cleving, Baron Fleming and others 368

An enormous ammunition column had come to a stop at Barbas 369

Kitchen wagons 374

On the fore-carriage of a gun sits a soldier fast asleep 375

A group of soldiers with the Divisional Pastor in the centre 378

The last picture from the Western Front 379