class="pginternal" tag="{http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml}a">Lt.-Gen. Sir G. H. Fowke

38 The Grande Place 42 The Ramparts 48 The Theatre 50 In the Officers' Club 54 The Place Gambetta 60 The Fosse 72 A By-way 80 A Royal Visit: December, 1918 90 The East Ramparts 102 The Army Commanders 110 Major-Gen. Sir C. A. Bray 122 Major-Gen. L. B. Friend 126 An Army Poster 132 Brig.-Gen. The Earl of Radnor 136 At Forestry H.Q. 140 Brig.-Gen. E. G. Wace 168 The Boulogne Gate (from the Town) 182 Major-Gen. C. Bonham-Carter 198 Lieut.-Col. D. Borden Turner 202 Captain H. P. Hansell 204 On the Ramparts 210 Lieut.-Gen. Sir Travers Clarke 226 The Ecole Militaire 272 At the Chief's Chateau 284 "Somewhere in France" 292 Map at end

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FOREWORD.

That fantastic life at G.H.Q., so greatly detached from the normal—the life of the men whose words had power to send Armies into and out of action, to give this Division rest and surcease from the agony of the struggle, to assign to that Division the stress of a new effort; the men into whose hands the nation poured millions without stint and at whose call the whole world moved to spin or dig or forge—will it be of interest now to recall some of its memories, to attempt an intimate picture of its routine?

Fantastic the life was truly. One man of imagination, who had done his work in the line so well as to win a reputation for great courage and administrative ability, and had carried through with a quiet skill and a simple dutifulness the responsibilities of the "small family" of a regiment, found, when he was transferred to G.H.Q., that the sense of responsibility was too great for his temperament. He was not a very important cog of the machine. But the feeling that the motion which his hand started set going so great a series of actions got on his