The great German attack on May 13th--Twelve hours of Hun howitzer fire--Terrible and awe-inspiring spectacle--The niagara of shell-sound--Around impassable Ypres to Potijze--Close work by a coal-box--Through a black shell-cloud--The York and Durham "Terriers"--Bombarded in a Potijze dug-out--The shell-swept line--Colonel Budworth's wisdom and the German General's lost opportunity--The super-human work of the Queen's Bays saves the line--The Life Guards shelled from their trenches--Bits of position lost wholesale--Good work by an armoured car--Accurate and invaluable gunning by British Artillery--German attacks dispersed--Heavy casualties among the 18th Hussars--The splendid charge of the Blues, 10th Hussars and Essex Yeomanry--David Campbell's 6th Brigade holds a line of obliterated trenches--Reports of heavy losses--The remnants form a new line--A talk with two of the Blues on the battle-field--A plucky Essex Yeoman--Over 1,600 casualties in the two cavalry divisions engaged--A lost despatch case--In the "huts" near Vlamertinghe--An unnecessary run up the Menin Road at night--The flotsam and jetsam of a divisional relief in the dark--A cellar headquarters on the Menin Road--The position at Hooge--Cheery K.R.R. cyclists--A gunner's curious story--The composition of the Salient line on the morning of May 24th--In the thick of a Hun gas attack--The 28th Division lose their line--The 18th Hussars outflanked--A "Gas Diary"--The 9th Lancers hold the trench-line--Fine work by the York and Durham Territorials--The 15th Hussars win laurels--Gas everywhere--A shell demolishes an ammunition limber--A brave Cheshire sergeant--A wounded Tommy and his yarn--Huns refuse to take prisoners--A counter-attack by the Royal Fusiliers--D.S.O.'s and Military Crosses--18th Hussars casualties--Captain Grenfell and Captain Court of the 9th Lancers buried at Vlamertinghe--General De Lisle given command of the 29th Division and leaves France for the Dardanelles 223-296 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS. THE AUTHOR _Frontispiece_ FACING PAGE Members of the Staff outside the headquarters of the 1st Cavalry Division 8 Between Philosophe and Vermelles; on the left, the château wall 9 A bird's-eye view of shattered Vermelles, January, 1915 28 Major Desmond Fitzgerald of the Lancers and a gas-pipe trench-mortar 29 A Winter Cavalry shelter in France 32 Construction of Cavalry shelter in France 33 The Rue de Menin in March 1915, looking west over the Menin Bridge across the canal moat 54