Capt. D. W. Godfree, M.C. (21st Lancers)--Lieut. H. Macdonald, M.C.--Lieut. C. A. G. M‘Lagan--Capt. B. W. D. Cochrane--Sgt. W. Matthews, M.M.--Lieut. L. Osmond ” 278 Lieut.-Col. J. J. Richardson, D.S.O., after a Hard Day at Tuz--Machine-guns captured by the Regiment at Tuz ” 282 Guns captured at Tuz--The Bridge at Mosul and the _Baghdad_ ” 286 Lieut.-Col. J. J. Richardson, D.S.O., September 1918 ” 292 Sergt. R. Holloway--Lce.-Sergt. Wm. Leeman--S.-Sergt. J. F. Couch, D.C.M.--2nd Lieut. G. R. Russell--Cpl. A. Vinall, D.C.M. ” 300 On the Way Home ” 326 A Group of Officers of the Regiment, taken in October 1920 by Elliott & Fry ” 328 The Memorial Tablet in All Saints’ Garrison Church, Aldershot: Dedicated and Unveiled 2nd August 1920 ” 372 ILLUSTRATIONS IN TEXT. PAGE Map of India 34 Germany and her Confederates 99 The Advance from Basra 124 Sketch-plan of a Perimeter Camp 125 Sketch of British Position on Tigris, December 1916 137 The Advance on Baghdad 159 Sketch-plan of Turkish Trench System 175 Baghdad and Field of Operations, 1917-1918 201 Sketch of Position at Battle of Tekrit, 5th November 1917 259 Approximate Sketch of Richardson’s Bluff Position 292 * * * * * Thanks are tendered to Messrs. Elliott & Fry, to Messrs. Gale & Polden, and others, for permission to copy some of the portraits reproduced in this work. The Thirteenth Hussars in the Great War. CHAPTER I. INTRODUCTORY. The main object of this book is to give an account of the services rendered by the Thirteenth Hussars during the last ten years, especially in the war which has just come to an end. The earlier history of the Regiment has already been written, and very fully written. On this subject the standard authority must always be Barrett’s valuable work, which takes up the story from the beginning and carries it on to 1910, a period of nearly two hundred years. In order that readers of the present narrative may start with a general knowledge of the Regiment and its past, a chapter relating to this period has been introduced. As will be seen, it touches upon most of the wars waged by Great Britain since the days of Marlborough. But it is a mere summary, chiefly drawn from Barrett, and contains little new matter.