Sir Douglas Haig, who succeeded to the chief command, was the leader who would undoubtedly have been called to the vacant post by both Army and public had leaders been chosen in the old Pretorian fashion. From the beginning he and Smith-Dorrien had been the right and left hands of the Chief, and now that ill-health had unhappily eliminated the latter, Haig's claim was paramount. Again and again he had borne the heaviest part in the fighting, and had saved the situation when it seemed desperate. He was a man of the type which the {252} British love, who shines the brighter against a dark background. Youthful for so high a command, and of with a frame and spirit which were even younger than his years, with the caution of a Scotchman and the calculated dash of a leader of cavalry, he was indeed the ideal man for a great military crisis. No task might seem impossible to the man who had held back the German tide at Ypres. With Haig in command and with an Army which was ever growing in numbers, in quality, and in equipment, the British waited with quiet confidence for the campaign of 1916. {253} INDEX Ainslie, General, 162 Alderson, General, 50, 57, 62, 134, 143 Alexander, Captain, 223 Allenby, General, 142, 244 Anley, General, 75, 86, 104, 155 Army Medical Service, 1 Aston, Lieutenant, 30 Baldock, General, 142 Ballard, General, 29, 152 Bannatine-Allason, General, 143 Barnett, Major, 161 Barrett, Captain Moulton, 35 Barter, General, 136, 143, 190, 192 Barton, Captain, 37 Bearman, Captain, 130 Beatty, Admiral Sir David, 168 Beecher, Lieutenant-Colonel, 146 Beith, Captain, 192 Bellewaarde, battle of, 82 Bennett, Captain Leigh, 5 Bernhardi and our Colonial Militia, 57 Bibby, Lieutenant, 17 Blagrove, Adjutant, 161 Bliss, Colonel, 17 Bottomley, Major, 130 Bowes, General, 90, 108, 150 Boyle, Colonel, 51, 52, 72 Bridgford, Colonel, 70 Briggs, General, 98 Brook, Colonel, 131 Brooks, Sergeant, V.C., 232 Bruce, General, 181, 195 Bulfin, General, 42, 109, 142, 144, 225, 226 Bulgaria joins the Central Powers, 171 Bulkeley-Johnson, General, 100 Burchall, Colonel, 56, 72 Burnett, Captain, 36 Burney, Staff-Major, 219 Burnyeat, Lieutenant, 35 Bush, Lieutenant, 4 Byng, General Sir Julian, 142 Cameron of Lochiel, Colonel, 183 Campbell, General, 149, 216 Campbell, Colonel, 41 Campbell, Major Carter, 18 Campbell-Dick, Captain, 123 Capper, General, 143, 201, 228 Carmichael, Captain, 14 Carter, General, 22 Carter, Colonel, 23 Carter, Captain, 201 Cavan, Lord, 5, 133, 221 Cavendish, Colonel Lord Richard, 77 Champagne, French offensive in, 170, 248 Chaplin, Colonel, 160 Chapman, General, 106 Checkland, Captain, 237 Chesham, Lord, 103 Clark, Colonel James, 94 Clark, Lieutenant, 90 Clifford, Lieutenant, 223 Coates, Captain, 213 Cochrane, General, 179, 241 Cockburn, General, 161 Collison-Morley, Colonel, 196 Compton, Lord, 103 Congreve, General, V.C., 142, 144, 161 Cooper, Major, 238