THE GRENADIER GUARDS IN THE GREAT WAR OF 1914-1918 [Illustration: Printer’s Logo] MACMILLAN AND CO., LIMITED LONDON · BOMBAY · CALCUTTA · MADRAS · MELBOURNE THE MACMILLAN COMPANY NEW YORK · BOSTON · CHICAGO · DALLAS · SAN FRANCISCO THE MACMILLAN CO. OF CANADA, LTD. TORONTO [Illustration: _J. S. Sargent portrait_ _Emery Walker ph. sc._ _Field Marshal H.R.H. The Duke of Connaught K.G., G.C.B. &c._ _Colonel of the Regiment_] THE GRENADIER GUARDS IN THE GREAT WAR OF 1914-1918 BY LIEUT.-COLONEL THE RIGHT HON. SIR FREDERICK PONSONBY (LATE GRENADIER GUARDS) WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY LIEUT.-GENERAL THE EARL OF CAVAN _MAPS BY MR. EMERY WALKER_ IN THREE VOLUMES VOL. II MACMILLAN AND CO., LIMITED ST. MARTIN’S STREET, LONDON 1920 COPYRIGHT CONTENTS CHAPTER XVIII PAGE JANUARY 1 TO SEPTEMBER 1, 1916 (3RD AND 4TH BATTS.) 1 CHAPTER XIX THE BATTLE OF THE SOMME (1ST, 2ND, 3RD, AND 4TH BATTS.) 27 CHAPTER XX OCTOBER, NOVEMBER, DECEMBER 1916 (1ST, 2ND, 3RD, AND 4TH BATTALIONS) 148 CHAPTER XXI JANUARY, FEBRUARY, MARCH 1917 (1ST, 2ND, 3RD, AND 4TH BATTALIONS) 160 CHAPTER XXII APRIL, MAY, JUNE, JULY 1917 (1ST, 2ND, 3RD, AND 4TH BATTALIONS) 174 CHAPTER XXIII BOESINGHE (1ST, 2ND, 3RD, AND 4TH BATTALIONS) 199 CHAPTER XXIV AUGUST, SEPTEMBER 1917 (1ST, 2ND, 3RD, AND 4TH BATTS.) 235 CHAPTER XXV THE CROSSING OF THE BROEMBEEK (1ST, 2ND, 3RD, AND 4TH BATTALIONS) 246 CHAPTER XXVI CAMBRAI AND GOUZEAUCOURT (1ST, 2ND, 3RD, AND 4TH BATTALIONS) 266 CHAPTER XXVII JANUARY, FEBRUARY, MARCH 1918 (1ST, 2ND, 3RD, AND 4TH BATTALIONS) 349 ILLUSTRATIONS Field-Marshal H.R.H. The Duke of Connaught, K.G., G.C.B., etc., Colonel of the Regiment _Frontispiece_ FACING PAGE Lieutenant-General The Earl of Cavan, K.P., K.C.B. 48 Major-General G. D. Jeffreys, C.M.G. 80 Brigadier-General C. E. Corkran, C.M.G. 112 Inspection of the Guards Division by Field-Marshal H.R.H. the Duke of Connaught, K.G., November 1, 1916 150 The Grenadier Guards marching in Fours past their Colonel, Field-Marshal H.R.H. the Duke of Connaught, K.G., November 1, 1916 159 Brigadier-General G. F. Trotter, C.B., C.M.G., D.S.O. 198 MAPS Battle of the Somme, the evening of September 15, 1916 118 Battle of the Somme, the night of September 25, 1916 138 Boesinghe, July 31, 1917 200 Broembeek, October 10, 1917 246