Officers under the stone lion on the Menin Bridge at Ypres 55 The Grande Place at Ypres and the Cloth Hall, March, 1915 66 The Choir of the ruined Ypres Cathedral 67 Scenes of battle of olden time in colours on the shattered walls of Ypres Cloth Hall 70 A communication trench leading to the front line position in the Sanctuary Wood 71 Officers of Lancers in their dug-outs in the front line trenches 86 A dug-out in front of Zillebeke 87 The Zillebeke Church, March 1915 92 German prisoners in Ypres, captured after the explosion of a British mine near Hooge 93 Damage caused by a 17-inch shell in Poperinghe, April, 1915 150 Red Cross ambulances on the coast 151 A French "75" in the mud of a Flanders beet-field 172 An ambulance which was struck by a shell while carrying wounded from east of Ypres 172 View showing depth of 17-inch shell-hole in the garden of a château between Poperinghe and Elverdinghe. 173 Staff Officers at lunch 176 Looking east over the Menin Bridge at the edge of Ypres 177 Dragoon Guards resting in the huts at Vlamertinghe 212 Graves of Capt. Annesley, Lieut. Drake, and Capt. Peto, all of the 10th Hussars, in a graveyard on the Menin Road 213 Officers of the Cavalry Corps 218 A typical farm in Flanders, in which British soldiers were billeted 219 Hussars' cook-house, Vlamertinghe huts, Vlamertinghe. 248 Group of Cavalry Officers at the huts at Vlamertinghe. 249 View of the 13th century château at Esquelbecque 260 "Jeff" Phipps-Hornby and Frederic Coleman comparing underpinning outside Ypres, May, 1915: the thinnest and thickest "supports" in the 1st Cavalry Division 261 Map 296 WITH CAVALRY IN 1915. CHAPTER I. January 1st, 1915, found me in damp, sodden Flanders. I was one of the dozen remaining members of the original Royal Automobile Club Corps, which had joined the British Expeditionary Force in France before Mons and the great retreat on Paris.