Arras, battle of: preparations preceding the battle, 20-24; attack of the Seventh Corps, 25-30; capture of Neuville Vitasse, 27; and of the Ibex Trench, 28; general advance of the Sixth Corps, 30-36; attack of the Seventeenth Corps, 36-41; Canadian success at Vimy Ridge, 41-43; review of first day's fighting, 43-44; capture of Monchy, 46-48; practical results of battle, 56; work of the airmen, 57; fight of the Australians at Bullecourt and Lagnicourt, 58-61; object of battle attained, 62; stand by the Middlesex and Argylls, 66-67; Fifteenth Division capture Guémappe, 68-69; storming of Gavrelle, 69-70; H.A.C. at Gavrelle, 74-76; loss of Fresnoy, 83-84; capture of Rœux, 84-85; capture of Bullecourt, 90-92 Arras-Soissons front, German retreat on, 8-16 Avion, 117, 121 Babington, General Sir J., 108, 188 Bagdad, British enter, 17 Baillescourt Farm, action at, 6 Bainbridge, General Sir E., 99 Ball, Captain Albert, 57 Bapaume occupied, 10 Basset, M. Serge, 117 Battye, Colonel, 263 Bavaria, Prince Rupprecht of, 98 Bean, Mr., Australian chronicler, quoted, 91, 175, 220 Beaumont Hamel, 3, 5, 37 Bellewarde Ridge, 151 Belsham, Captain, 67 Benzeery, Lieutenant, 295 Berners, Brigadier-General, 85 Bird wood, General Sir William, 4 Bixschoote, 137, 156 Bols, General Sir L., 109 Bourlon, 238, 257, 258, 261, 262, 263, 264, 265, 269, 282, 283, 289, 290, 292 Bourlon Wood, 251, 254, 255, 256, 257, 258, 259, 260, 264, 267, 289, 296 Bowell, Lieutenant, D.S.O., 119 Bradford, General, 267 Braithwaite, General, 243, 245 British extend their front in France, 1 British Armies, general disposition of, in beginning of 1917, 2 Broodseinde, 195, 206, 211, 212, 222 Brown, Brigadier-General, 99 Brusiloff, General, 132 Bullecourt, 11, 58, 87, 90-92, 237, 239, 252 Burstall, General, 41 Byng, General Sir Julian, 21, 115, 238, 255, 285, 296, 297, 298 Cambrai, 192, 237, 238, 247, 248, 251, 253, 255 Cambrai, battle of: Tanks _en masse_, 238, 242; attack on Tunnel Trench, 239-242; great advance, 242-243; work of Sixty-second Division, 243-244; advance of Fifty-first Division, 245-246; Fort Garry Horse, 246; attack of the Twenty-ninth Division on Marcoing and Mesnières, 247-249; advance of Twentieth and Twelfth Divisions, 249-251; German rally, 253-256; attack on and capture of Bourlon Wood, 257-260; fight for Bourlon village, 261-264: attack on La Fontaine, 265-267; great German attack, 269; the Fifty-fifth, Twelfth, and Twentieth Divisions, 270-275, 276-278; great fight of the Twenty-ninth Division, 275-276, 278-282; advance of the Guards, 282-286; capture of Gouzeaucourt, 284; battle in Bourlon sector, 288-297; retraction of British line, 297; observations on Cambrai battle, 297-298 Campbell, General, 25 Campbell, Major, 101 Canal de l'Escaut, 247, 255 Canal du Nord, 243, 291, 298 Caporetto, Italian disaster at, 234, 236 Cator, General, 92 Cavan, General Lord, 137, 138, 145, 162, 163, 167, 181, 202, 214, 224, 237