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...case hardened troops. If Scotch in husbandry, he was Scotch in fortitude, in personal valor. Rang in his ears an ancestral catch: "What e're betide, what e're betide, Haig shall be Haig of Bemerside!" Did he hum those words when, amid a murderous fire at Ypres, he went to hearten his troops within the battle area itself? Characteristically the last formal act of his life was to address a Boy Scout rally, last week on his estate. "Stand up for England when people speak disrespect- fully of her!" he said. On the evening of the next...
...Special social events are prepared in Rouen, Amiens, Lille, Ypres, Brussels, Nancy, Strasbourg, Basle, Geneva, Grenoble, Nice, Avignon, and Paris. Owing to the voluntary participation of Europeans and the private hospitality extended, an exceptionally low cost covers the twelve weeks' trip...
Engaged. Henry Bradley Martin, son of U. S. Capitalist Bradley Martin, and grandson of the late Henry Phipps (steel); to Valerie French, granddaughter of the late Field Marshal French, Earl of Ypres; at London...
...only time I ever saw him, was over in Ypres in 1917. He was fighting four British machines at the time in a welter of anti-air- craft fire. ... I never had an encounter with him, but he killed a friend of mine named Captain Robertson in the summer...
...Another instance occurred in 1917, near Ypres, where a British aviator shot down a kite balloon and then tried to machine-gun the crew as they escaped in parachutes. This was against the code, and the German commander had a note dropped in a British aerodrome. Finally, owing to the efforts of the British airmen, the individual who had shot at men in parachutes was located through his report on downing the balloon. The General in command interrogated him, and on corroborating the German charge of unsportsmanlike conduct sent the man home in disgrace and informed the Germans...