(Stage I.--The Gas Attack, April 22-30) Situation at Ypres--The poison gas--The Canadian ordeal--The fight in the wood of St. Julien--The French recovery--Miracle days--The glorious Indians--The Northern Territorials--Hard fighting--The net result--Loss of Hill 60 {viii} CHAPTER IV THE SECOND BATTLE OF YPRES (Stage II.--The Bellewaarde Lines) The second phase--Attack on the Fourth Division--Great stand of the Princess Pats--Breaking of the line--Desperate attacks--The cavalry save the situation--The ordeal of the 11th Brigade--The German failure--Terrible strain on the British--The last effort of May 24--Result of the battle--Sequence of events CHAPTER V THE BATTLE OF RICHEBOURG-FESTUBERT (May 9-24) The new attack--Ordeal of the 25th Brigade--Attack of the First Division--Fateful days--A difficult situation--Attack of the Second Division--Attack of the Seventh Division--British success--Good work of the Canadians--Advance of the Forty-seventh London Division--The lull before the storm CHAPTER VI THE TRENCHES OF HOOGE The British line in June 1915--Canadians at Givenchy--Attack of 154th Brigade--8th Liverpool Irish--Third Division at Hooge--11th Brigade near Ypres--Flame attack on the Fourteenth Light Division--Victory of the Sixth Division at Hooge CHAPTER VII THE BATTLE OF LOOS (The First Day--September 25) General order of battle--Check of the Second Division--Advance of the Ninth and Seventh Divisions--Advance of the First Division--Fine progress of the Fifteenth Division--Capture of Loos--Work of the Forty-seventh London Division {ix} CHAPTER VIII THE BATTLE OF LOOS (The Second Day--September 26) Death of General Capper--Retirement of the Fifteenth Division--Advance of the Twenty-fourth and Twenty-first Divisions--Heavy losses--Desperate struggle--General retirement on the right--Rally round Loos--Position in the evening CHAPTER IX THE BATTLE OF LOOS (From September 27 to the end of the year) Loss of Fosse 8--Death of General Thesiger--Advance of the Guards--Attack of the Twenty-eighth Division--Arrival of the Twelfth Division--German counter-attacks--Attack by the Forty-sixth Division upon Hohenzollern Redoubt--Subsidiary attacks--General observations--Return of Lord French to England INDEX MAPS AND PLANS Map to illustrate the British Campaign in France and Flanders [Transcriber's note: omitted from ebook because its size and fragility made it impractical to scan] British Front, 1915 Ypres District Order of Battle, May 7th Richebourg District Loos District Battle of Loos--I. Battle of Loos--II. [Illustration: BRITISH FRONT, 1915.] {1} CHAPTER I THE OPENING MONTHS OF 1915