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Brocard, Capt.,
203
Brusilov Offensive,
282-3
Buffet, Officer-Cadet,
259
,
262
,
334
Bulgaria,
280-1

 

Campana, 2nd-Lt. Roger,
166-7
,
187
Casemate de Bourges,
107-8
,
238-9
Castelnau, Gen. de: character and career,
127-8
;
9
,
55
,
97
,
125-31
,
137
,
143
,
145
,
203
,
228
,
234
,
276
,
320
,
333
casualties: first five months,
18-19
; (1916)
152
,
161-2
,
215
,
216
n
, (Somme Offensive, July 1st),
294
,
300
,
304
,
318
; Verdun total,
327-8
; first world war (French),
66
censorship, French,
121-2
,
274
Chaine, Lt. Pierre,
306
Chamber of Deputies,
122
; Secret Session (June 1916),
274-5
,
319
Champagne,
25
Chantilly (G.Q.C.),
21
,
23-4
,
229-30
Chapman, Victor,
210
,
211-12
Charleville-Mézières,
37
Chattancourt,
171
Chemin de Dames,
232
,
321
,
322
,
332
Chenot,
Gardien de Batterie,
113
,
116
,
118
Chrétien, Gen.,
51
,
59
,
94
,
103-4
,
113-14
Churchill, Sir Winston,
27
,
35
,
130
,
233
,
332
Cigognes, Groupe des,
203-5
,
206
Claudel, Col.,
125
Clemenceau, Georges,
6
,
66
,
197
,
289
,
332
,
333
Cochin, Capt. Augustin,
168-9
Combes, Émile,
8-9
communications, see
motor transport
;
rail communications
Conrad von Hötzendorf, F.M.,
35
,
277-82
Consenvoye, Bois de,
84-5
Côte de l’Oie,
157
Côte
304
,
162-3
,
169-71
,
343
Coty, President,
339
Coutanceau, Gen.,
50
Cowdin, Elliot,
210
Crepey, Gen.,
59
cuistots,
182-3
Cumières,
102
,
171
,
327

 

Damloup ‘High Battery’,
291
,
296
,
298
,
325
Dandauw, Sgt.-Maj.,
79-80
,
83
Danton,
11
Darlan, Lt. (later Admiral),
248
‘Deadly Quadrilateral’,
214
Debeney, Gen.,
338
‘decimation’,
64
Deimling, Gen. von,
249
,
261
Deligny, Gen.,
114
Dellmensingen, Gen. Krafft von,
284
; and see
Alpine Corps
Delvert, Capt. Charles,
179
,
187
,
194-5
,
239
,
249-51
,
257
,
259-60
,
305-6
Derome, Lt.,
85
Déroulède, Paul,
1
,
6
,
10
,
16
Derville, Lt.,
186
Desaubliaux, Robert,
235
Deschanel, Paul,
52
Desmazes, Gen.,
21
Deuxième Bureau
(Intelligence),
14
,
24
,
53-4
,
229
Dorey, Capt.,
315
Douaumont: village,
149
,
327
,
351
; Fort,
48
,
100
; Germans take,
105-24
; explosion at,
219-20
; French attack,
235-41
, and retake,
308-18
;
338
,
343
Dreyfus Affair,
8
Driant, Lt.-Col. Émile,
51-3
,
60
,
68
,
74
,
78-81
,
87-90
,
204
Dubail, Gen.,
49-50
Dubrulle, Sgt. Paul,
123
,
177
,
186
Dugny,
143
Duhamel, Georges,
65-6
,
184-5
,
186-7
Dumont, Sapper,
315
Dupuy, Lt.,
299-300
,
352
Durassié,
119
,
124
Dutourd, Jean,
308
,
341

 

École de Guerre,
11
,
136
Edward VII, King,
37
,
223
embusqués,
195
Epp, Lt.-Col. Ritter von,
288
,
334
; and see
Leib Regiment

 

Falkenhayn, F.M. Erich von: character and career,
29-34
; strategy of,
34-40
,
42
,
44
,
76-7
,
82
,
153-6
,
328-30
,
331
; vacillations,
215-18
,
219
,
220-2
; ‘May Cup’,
245-6
; relations with Austrian command,
277-83
; dismissal,
295-6
,
300
,
302-4
; subsequent career,
334-5
,
352
Falkenhayn, Gen. Eugene,
165-6
,
171
Farrar, Geraldine,
223
Ferry, Abel,
134-5
,
231
Flabas,
58
flame-throwers,
81-2
,
162
,
336
Flanders,
34
Fleury,
216
,
246
,
284
,
288
,
301
,
314
,
327
,
350
‘Flying Circus’,
207
,
291-2
Foch, Marshal,
4
,
12
,
13
,
134
,
136
,
293-4
,
320
; supreme commander,
325
Fokker, Tony,
201-2
Fonck, René,
205
Fonsagrive, Staff-Sgt.,
179
,
326
Foreign Legion,
209-10
Forges,
157
Forster, Hans,
289-90
France, Anatole,
10
,
197

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