Three Mont

at the Bristol Flying Grounds; so I volunteered for active service; and, after a mon

ace. How armies were rapidly mobilised! How the British Fleet steamed out

days have passed between, for events followed ea

um the greatest army the world had ever seen. An awful

crawled up, stood out of range of th

d fortnight, preceded by their Taube aeroplanes spying out the movements of the

erpose a wall of men and steel, which met the shock of battl

t into active operation, reconnoitring the battle line on our left flank.

ber 2 it recoiled back-back to the Marne-back to the Aisne-back almost to the Belgian frontier. Then winter dropped upon it, turning the roa

been a ... curios

oplane to fly

smoke-ball fired as we flew above a new trench gave our artillery the range; then till night fell a rain of shells would batter that new position. In the dar