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Q. - (Montreuil-Sur-Mer) - -Author: Frank Fox - G.S.O. - -Release Date: September 5, 2013 [EBook #43644] - -Language: English - -Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 - -*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK G. H. Q. *** - - - - -Produced by Bruce Albrecht, Max Jackson and the Online -Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net - - - - - - -</pre> +<div>*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK 43644 ***</div> <div class="tnote"> <a name="toptnotes"></a> @@ -434,7 +397,7 @@ AUTHOR. <tr><td align="left"> </td><td align="right"><span class="smcap">to face page</span></td></tr> <tr><td align="left"><a href="#i_0002"><span class="smcap">The Chief</span></a></td><td align="right"><i>Frontispiece</i></td></tr> <tr><td align="left"><a href="#i_0018"><span class="smcap">The Boulogne Gate</span></a></td><td align="right">1</td></tr> -<tr><td align="left"><a href="#i_0033"><span class="smcap">The Cavée Saint Firmin</span></a></td><td align="right">14</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><a href="#i_0033"><span class="smcap">The Cavée Saint Firmin</span></a></td><td align="right">14</td></tr> <tr><td align="left"><a href="#i_0041"><span class="smcap">Outside the Ramparts</span></a></td><td align="right">20</td></tr> <tr><td align="left"><a href="#i_0049"><span class="smcap">The Market</span></a></td><td align="right">26</td></tr> <tr><td align="left"><a href="#i_0055"><span class="smcap">Lt.-Gen. The Hon. Sir H. A. Lawrence</span></a></td><td align="right">30</td></tr> @@ -1073,7 +1036,7 @@ town houses and the neighbouring chateaux.</p> <p><a name="i_0033"></a></p> <div class="figcenter" style="width: 600px;"> <img src="images/page_0033.jpg" width="600" height="389" alt="" title="" /> -<span class="caption">THE 'CAVÉE' SAINT FIRMIN</span> +<span class="caption">THE 'CAVÉE' SAINT FIRMIN</span> </div> <p>G.H.Q. of course was never a great camp. @@ -1116,7 +1079,7 @@ Montreuil and the Montreuillois for many centuries cordially hated England, and not without good reason. In April, 1369, they chased the English from the town with hoots of -"<i>A la queue, à la queue les Anglais.</i>" After +"<i>A la queue, à la queue les Anglais.</i>" After 550 years, in April, 1919, they saw the British G.H.Q. leave Montreuil with what different feelings!</p><p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_17" id="Page_17">[17]</a></span></p> @@ -1128,13 +1091,13 @@ the Roman Empire had a naval station close to, or actually on, the great fortress rock which guarded the mouth of the Canche and which was then a peninsula jutting out into the sea. -This station, no doubt, Julius Cæsar used in his +This station, no doubt, Julius Cæsar used in his expedition against Britain. Later Carausius, a Roman Briton, revolted against the Roman Empire and, by winning the command of the Channel with his Fleet, maintained for a time an independent Britain. He assumed the state -of Cæsar and founded a Roman-British +of Cæsar and founded a Roman-British Empire. The <i>Classis Britannica</i> of the Roman Empire had had its chief station at or near Montreuil. With the revolt of Carausius there @@ -1220,7 +1183,7 @@ fortress, and used the glory of St. Saulve's monastery to attract to the place other religious communities from Brittany and elsewhere.<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_20" id="Page_20">[20]</a></span> Montreuil became thus a famous strong-point. -It developed on the familiar lines of a mediæval +It developed on the familiar lines of a mediæval city with its well-established local rights, those of "the peers of the peerage of Montreuil." The ravages of the Northmen in the surrounding @@ -1262,8 +1225,8 @@ Montreuil between the Counts of Ponthieu and Flanders and the Duke of Normandy were settled by the King of France, Hugo Capet, who made the town part of the Royal Domain of -France and built a great fortified château by the -side of the old citadel. A part of this château +France and built a great fortified château by the +side of the old citadel. A part of this château still remains, "the Tower of Queen Bertha," so-called from the unhappy fate of Bertha, Queen of Philip I. of France. She was the @@ -1315,11 +1278,11 @@ the revenues of Ponthieu and Montreuil.</p> <p>But that marriage did not make for peace. On the contrary its fruits were a new series of wars interrupted by an occasional truce or -brief peace. Crécy and Agincourt were both +brief peace. Crécy and Agincourt were both fought almost in sight of Montreuil. The district round was ravaged again and again by the English forces, and several times the -town itself was besieged in vain. After Crécy, +town itself was besieged in vain. After Crécy, Edward tried to take it and failed. An incident of one of the peace treaties was the visit of Chaucer, the poet, to Montreuil as an<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_23" id="Page_23">[23]</a></span> @@ -1372,7 +1335,7 @@ to be friendly, and the presumption was justified, though curiously enough there was in 1918 a slight revival of the old anti-English feelings, and I even heard whispered again -"<i>à la queue les Anglais</i>." It all arose from +"<i>à la queue les Anglais</i>." It all arose from what must be admitted to have been rather an undignified incident.</p> @@ -1455,7 +1418,7 @@ in consequence.</p> <p>One advantage that we won from the bomb 'scare' (if that word is justified) was that it -gave a stimulus to archæological research in the +gave a stimulus to archæological research in the town. There was at G.H.Q. at the time, as a Major, R.E., that fine "sport" Professor David of Sydney University. Professor David @@ -1788,7 +1751,7 @@ on the Chief's personal staff, Captain Botha, a<span class="pagenum"><a name="Pa son of the late General Botha, Prime Minister of South Africa. With his personal staff the Commander-in-Chief was quartered at a -château near Montreuil.</p> +château near Montreuil.</p> <p>One rarely saw "the Chief." He seldom had occasion to come to the offices in the Ecole @@ -2074,7 +2037,7 @@ of different designs were authorised to distinguish:</p> <li>Town Majors.</li> <li>Traffic Control.</li> <li>Agents de Police Special.</li> -<li>Instructors of Machine Gun School, Lewis Gun School, and Machine Gun Corps Base Depôt.</li> +<li>Instructors of Machine Gun School, Lewis Gun School, and Machine Gun Corps Base Depôt.</li> <li>H.Q. Corps Heavy Artillery.</li> <li>Special Brigade.</li> <li>Area Commandants.</li> @@ -2159,7 +2122,7 @@ and could follow it round the whole circuit of the town for a mile or more. From every point there was a rich and ample prospect; southward over the swelling downs and little copses -towards the forest of Crécy; westward over a +towards the forest of Crécy; westward over a richer and more luxuriant plain towards the sea; northward across the woods and marshes of the Canche; eastward along the valley of the @@ -2295,7 +2258,7 @@ in which every one was a "swotter."</p> their laborious lives. The balance of G.H.Q. staff, some 250, scattered about the environs of Montreuil with their offices at Paris Plage or -Le Touquet or the Forest of Crécy, could +Le Touquet or the Forest of Crécy, could follow a somewhat milder discipline. They were "Second Echelon" mostly. Current operations had not much concern for them and @@ -2515,8 +2478,8 @@ finish to dinner. When the Armistice was signed officers were disconsolate for the loss of their ten minutes in the M.I. room. "I miss," said one, "our pleasant daily habit of -advancing ten kilomètres on a front of fifty -kilomètres."</p> +advancing ten kilomètres on a front of fifty +kilomètres."</p> <p>No, life at G.H.Q. was sober and strenuous, but it was not dull or tedious. If a man has<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_58" id="Page_58">[58]</a></span> @@ -2934,7 +2897,7 @@ misty. Over the seared and terrible land little wisps of fog rose and fell. All likeness to our gentle mother earth had been battered out of the fields, which were rubbish-heaps of churned-up -débris of bodies, dust, weapons—hideously +débris of bodies, dust, weapons—hideously pock-marked by the eruption of the shells.<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_71" id="Page_71">[71]</a></span> Where had been villages were dirtier patches of desolation. Where had been woods, groups of @@ -3015,7 +2978,7 @@ be avoided. We, on the other hand, are quite careless about our language. The orders of our Army in France were bespattered with French words and phrases for which there were quite -good English equivalents. (<i>Gare <ins title="Transcriber's Note: original reads 'regulatrice'">régulatrice</ins></i> +good English equivalents. (<i>Gare <ins title="Transcriber's Note: original reads 'regulatrice'">régulatrice</ins></i> for "distributing station" is one of the many scores of cases in point.) It is a pity that we are so careless in regard to our mother tongue. @@ -3080,7 +3043,7 @@ are some other big figures:</p> </table></div> <p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_75" id="Page_75">[75]</a></span></p> -<p>In the depôts in France we kept a reserve of +<p>In the depôts in France we kept a reserve of 258,000 tons of ammunition, and the issues in a normal month ran to about that figure though it varied a good deal month by month. Thus @@ -3104,7 +3067,7 @@ field <ins title="Transcriber's Note: original reads 'gun'">guns</ins> would sho normal day, and on a heavy day would use 200,000 rounds. The cost of ammunition was, in a time of heavy fighting, up to -£3,000,000 <i>per day</i>.</p> +£3,000,000 <i>per day</i>.</p> <p>A heavy item in munitions was for defence against poison gas and for our own poison gas @@ -3208,14 +3171,14 @@ dump a certain amount of loose explosive, a fulminate, and a receiver tuned to receive your wireless message. We were not on sufficiently good terms with the Germans to persuade them -to arrange their ammunition depôts in this way +to arrange their ammunition depôts in this way for our convenience.</p> <p>There was a close <i>liaison</i> kept up between the B.E.F. and the Ministry of Munitions. When<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_79" id="Page_79">[79]</a></span> Mr. Winston Churchill was Minister of Munitions he was over in France so frequently -that a small château was kept up for him at +that a small château was kept up for him at G.H.Q. He was wont to come into the Officers' Club for his meals. There was always an air about him that he would have liked to be in the @@ -3899,13 +3862,13 @@ was not only good for transport and good for <p>By the Spring of 1919 we had sold out of the Army 252,676 animals (horses and mules), of which 235,715 were sold for work and 16,961 -for meat. The total realised was £8,493,920, -of which £8,081,607 was realised from the -working animals and £412,313 for those +for meat. The total realised was £8,493,920, +of which £8,081,607 was realised from the +working animals and £412,313 for those animals which, because of old age or disablement, it was more merciful to send to the slaughter-house. In addition a small item of -£18,696 had been realised from by-products, +£18,696 had been realised from by-products, for our Army administrators, whatever might be thought to the contrary, did study economy, and the animal which fell by the wayside was @@ -3944,7 +3907,7 @@ in gun teams. But it established itself in a very wide range of general utility and materially helped to win the war.</p> -<p>The improvisation of remount depôts and of +<p>The improvisation of remount depôts and of training centres for horses and for men who for the first time had to handle horses was the first big problem. The winter of 1914-15 was @@ -3984,7 +3947,7 @@ objective, has endorsed that high strategical judgment. Perhaps in a future war, if there is going to be a future war, Flanders will be a closed area and no Army will be allowed to go -there to fight under penalty of a <i><ins title="Transcriber's Note: original reads 'procés-verbal'">procès-verbal</ins></i>. +there to fight under penalty of a <i><ins title="Transcriber's Note: original reads 'procés-verbal'">procès-verbal</ins></i>. That should be done if only for the sake of the horses.</p> @@ -4037,7 +4000,7 @@ work.</p> the horses were given good standings and their feet kept out of the mud the rain did not trouble<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_104" id="Page_104">[104]</a></span> them at all, and the wind troubled them little. -But once off the pavé roads all Flanders was +But once off the pavé roads all Flanders was semi-liquid, and the problem at horse-lines was first to secure a solid "standing," next to secure a solid road in and out to that @@ -4592,7 +4555,7 @@ considerably. Exceedingly liberal arrangements had been made at the outset to meet the convenience of officers. Thus any Branch of<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_121" id="Page_121">[121]</a></span> the Bank of France would cash an officer's -cheque up to £5, and any Field Cashier—each +cheque up to £5, and any Field Cashier—each Division had a Field Cashier—would cash his chit to the same amount. Also, he might draw his allowances by cheque monthly, and this @@ -4601,9 +4564,9 @@ cheque was good at any Field Cashier's office.</p> <p>Some early developments were startling. There is a tale of one officer (he was in a position which gave him a wide range of movement) -collecting £125 in one day before going on +collecting £125 in one day before going on leave. He had a "good leave" presumably, -but he had at the time only £3 due to him at his +but he had at the time only £3 due to him at his Army Agent's, and it took some time for him to make up the balance on his pay as lieutenant. To meet the case of gentlemen "raising the @@ -4722,7 +4685,7 @@ Allied Countries.</p> <p>The encouragement of thrift among the soldiers was part of the work of "Pay." In August, 1915, it secured soldier subscriptions to -the War Loan to the extent of £25,200. The +the War Loan to the extent of £25,200. The next year it established Savings Banks, and in 1918 it set up agencies at all Army Post Offices for the sale of War Savings Certificates. But @@ -5008,7 +4971,7 @@ patriotism which made them devote a passionate interest to the recovery of solder from old tins, to collecting waste paper, old boots, nails,<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_135" id="Page_135">[135]</a></span> horseshoes, rags and buttons. "There is -nothing of the débris of the battlefield which +nothing of the débris of the battlefield which we cannot put to some use," General Gibbs announced; and by his personal enthusiasm he made Salvage collection quite a popular sport @@ -5561,7 +5524,7 @@ off-loaded for the year 1918 was 121,000 tons, and comprised over three million packages.</p> <p>Here is a table of figures of total sales at -canteens and depôts:—</p> +canteens and depôts:—</p> <div class="center"> @@ -5912,7 +5875,7 @@ guardianship than in the average British home. They lived in settlements, with their own recreation rooms. These settlements were strictly out of bounds for soldiers. All private -houses, cafés, restaurants, etc., were "out of +houses, cafés, restaurants, etc., were "out of bounds" to the W.A.A.C.s. Nor could a W.A.A.C. "walk out" with a soldier in her leisure time except by permission of her officer.</p> @@ -5944,9 +5907,9 @@ best of means of judging their general standard of conduct throughout France. In case of a lapse from grace a W.A.A.C. was retired from the Corps, her uniform was withdrawn and she -had a grant of £5 to enable her to buy a civilian +had a grant of £5 to enable her to buy a civilian costume. There were not many cases of that -£5 being paid.</p> +£5 being paid.</p> <p>But the W.A.A.C.s, as I have said, did not come under the Labour Directorate but under @@ -6068,7 +6031,7 @@ objects:</p> exclusive of the time occupied for meals and for going to and from the place of work. If the distance from the place of parade to the work -was more than 1½ miles, the time taken to march +was more than 1½ miles, the time taken to march the excess distance was deducted from the hours of work. For labour of low medical category the normal working day was eight hours.</p> @@ -7221,7 +7184,7 @@ slowly. However, a scheme was got ready, waiting for the favourable moment to arrive. It arrived sooner than was expected. At an historic dinner one night at Lord Haig's -château his personal enthusiasm was aroused, +château his personal enthusiasm was aroused, and he gave orders for the preparation of a scheme for general education throughout the Army in France with the object (1) of making @@ -7459,7 +7422,7 @@ printing by the Army Printing and Stationery Services under Colonel Partridge. This was a<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_207" id="Page_207">[207]</a></span> highly efficient department with printing presses of the most modern type at Boulogne, -Abbéville, and elsewhere. A.P. and S.S. +Abbéville, and elsewhere. A.P. and S.S. printed daily General Routine Orders and, as occasion demanded, poured out in millions Army Forms, posters, pamphlets, and books. @@ -7486,7 +7449,7 @@ pointed out that France was now a Republic and a monarchical symbol could hardly be permitted on an official publication. It might give rise to a suspicion that the Army -contemplated a <i>coup d'état</i>. The printers +contemplated a <i>coup d'état</i>. The printers regretted and tried again. The second cover design bore the good old Roman Republican<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_208" id="Page_208">[208]</a></span> device of the lictors' fasces. But they were @@ -7828,7 +7791,7 @@ way of indemnity. They would have to be supplied not free, but at a price 20 per cent. lower than the current market price, and the annual value of this discount would only<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_218" id="Page_218">[218]</a></span> -reach the modest sum of £50,000,000 a year.</p> +reach the modest sum of £50,000,000 a year.</p> <p>To have had to provide yearly a tribute of any kind to Germany would of course have taken @@ -7841,9 +7804,9 @@ have become as the oppressed Christian provinces of the old Turkish Empire. But to provide this tribute of raw material, the discount on which at 20 per cent. would be -£50,000,000 a year, would have been to engage +£50,000,000 a year, would have been to engage to send to Germany yearly raw materials of her -choice to the value of £250,000,000. This would +choice to the value of £250,000,000. This would have been the first call on the farms, the mines, the shipping of the Allies, and only after that call was met would the Allies have been able to @@ -8002,7 +7965,7 @@ the employment of such a weapon.</p> <p>All these experts agreed that the effect on<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_223" id="Page_223">[223]</a></span> Great Britain would be to force her to sue for peace within six months or less. Indeed, -Herr Müller, President of the Dresden Bank, +Herr Müller, President of the Dresden Bank, thought that Great Britain would collapse within three months. All the experts also agreed as to the third point of reference, @@ -8602,18 +8565,18 @@ afterwards decided that no international law prevented Americans from enlisting voluntarily, in spite of their country's neutrality. The squadrilla was to be known -as the "Escadrille Américaine," and to +as the "Escadrille Américaine," and to be commanded by a French captain. On November 16th, 1916, Colonel -<ins title="Transcriber's Note: original reads 'Barrés'">Barès</ins>, +<ins title="Transcriber's Note: original reads 'Barrés'">Barès</ins>, Chief of the French Aviation at General Headquarters, -decided that the name "Escadrille Américaine" +decided that the name "Escadrille Américaine" must be dropped and the official military number, N124, used in future. The reason given was that Bernstorff had protested to Washington "that Americans were fighting on -the French Front, that the French <i>communiqués</i> -contained the name 'Escadrille Américaine,' +the French Front, that the French <i>communiqués</i> +contained the name 'Escadrille Américaine,' and that these volunteer Americans pushed their brazenness to the point of having a red<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_241" id="Page_241">[241]</a></span> Sioux Indian in full war-paint depicted on @@ -9118,8 +9081,8 @@ strategic value. As our line ran south the French coast bulged out. We had more room to manœuvre there; loss of ground was not so vital. If the Germans had won on the line -Ypres-Armentières the same depth of territory -that they won on the line Arras-Péronne, we +Ypres-Armentières the same depth of territory +that they won on the line Arras-Péronne, we should have had to evacuate all France north of the Somme.</p> @@ -9564,7 +9527,7 @@ following up our advance.</p> not an easy one. The enemy advance had caused a direct loss of some light railway systems, and on the broad-gauge systems -important engine depôts were lost, and our +important engine depôts were lost, and our front lateral line was brought at several points under the fire of the enemy's artillery. Use of this front lateral line had thus become @@ -9573,7 +9536,7 @@ every part of the railway system. Good circulation is the essence of railway working; and a block at any point has an effect similar to that of an aneurism on a human artery. -Because of the loss of engine depôts, and the +Because of the loss of engine depôts, and the hindrances to circulation on the front lateral line, the back lateral line along the coast became seriously congested. This congestion reduced @@ -9583,7 +9546,7 @@ the capacity of every engine by an average of <p>Further, our rear lateral line had two particularly vulnerable points, one at Etaples, where it crossed the Canche, and the other at<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_270" id="Page_270">[270]</a></span> -Abbéville, where it crossed the Somme. Upon +Abbéville, where it crossed the Somme. Upon these points enemy aircraft made frequent attacks, imposing delays, occasionally causing minor destruction, always adding to the effects @@ -9652,7 +9615,7 @@ But the empty lorry still waited.</p> <p><a name="i_0345"></a></p> <div class="figcenter" style="width: 600px;"> <img src="images/page_0345.jpg" width="600" height="380" alt="" title="" /> -<span class="caption">THE ÉCOLE MILITAIRE</span> +<span class="caption">THE ÉCOLE MILITAIRE</span> </div> <p>Lorries in those days were precious. Because @@ -9840,7 +9803,7 @@ that her withdrawal from it was made exceedingly difficult. Several blunders of a lesser order marked the first stages of the campaign. Belgium having been attacked and -Liége taken, the Prussian army showed a +Liége taken, the Prussian army showed a strange hesitancy and lack of enterprise when faced by the little Belgian army on the line Haelen-Tirlemont-Namur. Precious days were @@ -10174,7 +10137,7 @@ differed in almost every respect, and the systems of Supply could not be identical. Except in regard to a few items, one Army could not supply the other satisfactorily. Therefore, -each Army should have its own depôts, +each Army should have its own depôts, railheads, and—for the sorting of supplies—its own regulating stations, which would receive from Base full trains loaded with particular @@ -10188,11 +10151,11 @@ be different channels of supply.</p> <p>British policy was that a British Force in a French area should provide completely for its own maintenance, and organise its supply lines -and depôts accordingly. Ultimately it was +and depôts accordingly. Ultimately it was recognised on both sides that this was the only possible policy, and that the trouble of providing separate regulating stations, separate -railheads, and depôts must be faced. Any +railheads, and depôts must be faced. Any half-way policy was seen to be fraught with too many possibilities of dangerous failures.</p> @@ -10225,7 +10188,7 @@ French were inclined to put their faith chiefly in light railways. The British idea was that light railways could be overdone; that there was not a full appreciation of the modification in -the rôle of the light railway consequent on the +the rôle of the light railway consequent on the change from trench to moving warfare; that there was a tendency for light railways to attempt to duplicate the work of broad-gauge @@ -10282,7 +10245,7 @@ that the British were most loyal in service, and also very independent and stubborn (and often<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_292" id="Page_292">[292]</a></span> prevailing) in council. Probably looking back upon the great victory which was won under -his <i>bâton</i> he is profoundly grateful that the +his <i>bâton</i> he is profoundly grateful that the British were so forthright in helping to keep the Allied operations on the best track.</p> @@ -10359,7 +10322,7 @@ hamper traffic, at the same time constantly attacking with aircraft our rear lateral railway line at its most sensitive points, the Somme and the Canche crossings. The ports of entry and -the supply depôts were also repeatedly attacked. +the supply depôts were also repeatedly attacked. Inconvenience—serious at times—and loss followed from these attacks, but there was never an actual stoppage of essential traffic. @@ -10567,7 +10530,7 @@ stronger holding there, leaving to us without a battle all of Belgium that he had won in the Spring offensive. But that gave us a new railway advantage, and on September 18th, -1918, the Battle of Epéhy carried the advanced +1918, the Battle of Epéhy carried the advanced posts of the Hindenburg line.</p> <p>Quickly the home thrust followed. Between @@ -10789,7 +10752,7 @@ general public. A feature is the very complete INDEX, and the APPENDICES contain the VERBATIM TEXTS of the most important documents of the War.</p> -<p class="center">Large Post 8vo. (8¼ × 5½), 12s. 6d. net.</p> +<p class="center">Large Post 8vo. (8¼ × 5½), 12s. 6d. net.</p> <h3>Quality Court, Chancery Lane, W.C. 2.</h3> </div> @@ -10876,384 +10839,11 @@ the perfect cimicifuge which will keep lice off the body)</p> <p>Page 218 "suzerainity" changed to "suzerainty" (of admitting a German suzerainty)</p> -<p>Page 240 "Barrés" changed to "Barès" ( Colonel Barès, Chief of the)</p> +<p>Page 240 "Barrés" changed to "Barès" ( Colonel Barès, Chief of the)</p> <a href="#toptnotes">Return to top</a> </div></div> - - - - - - -<pre> - - - - - -End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of G. H. Q., by Frank Fox and G.S.O. - -*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK G. H. 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