C. 5th Cavalry
Brigade, 25, 47;
German cavalry repulsed by, at Cerizy, 87;
1st Corps' retirement covered by, 93;
French's visit with, to the tired troops, 136.

Chichester, Brigadier-General, O.C. Territorial Training Camp,
St. Omer, 294.

Chivalry in war, importance of maintaining, instances of, in the
Boer War, 339.

Chivres Plateau, German artillery concentration on, 151-2.

Chivres Plateau-Missy line held by 5th Division, 152.

Chivres Spur, Aisne Valley, 147.

Christmas Day, 1900, a Boer Christmas present after, 339.

Christmas Day, 1914, how spent by French, 337;
an armistice believed to have been suggested for, by the Pope, 337;
German fraternisation on, 338.

Churchill, Rt. Hon. Winston, and the _Entente_, 3;
on the situation of the British Navy on August 5, 1914, 4;
attacks on, repudiated by French, and valuable help acknowledged,
164;
character-summary of, 302-3;
visits of, to French, and plans for naval co-operation sketched
out during, 163-4;
and letters after, 302 _sqq._;
later visit to French (Dec. 17), the difficulties of British
coastal advance discussed, 305;
French dislike of the plan, 305;
and substitute for it, 307;
on the French attitude to the Zeebrugge plan, 307;
telegram from (Jan. 2), on the development of Zeebrugge as a
submarine base, 308;
text, 311.

Clive, Major, Grenadier Guards, liaison officer at French H.Q.,
news from, 72;
a tribute to, 274.

Cloth Hall, and other glories at Ypres, 248.

Coast-line, menace to, _see_ Channel ports.

Coldstream Guards, The,
1st Batt., 17, 250;
at Givenchy, 328;
2nd Batt., 19, 125, 128, 244;
3rd Batt., 19, 125, 127, 128, 244.

Command of Ground, chief value of, 149.

Commander-in-Chief, demands on the brain of, 80;
functions of, as exercised by Kitchener in South Africa, 333;
responsibility of, for all blame always maintained by French,
329-30.

Commanders of Armies in the Field, and Interference by Home
Government, _see_ Divided Command.

Committee of Imperial Defence, 1, 8;
warning to, by French, on the command of the Channel ports, 155-6,
214;
suggestion to, on sectional construction of submarines made by
French, 216;
French a member of, 8.

Compiegne, French's G.H.Q. at, 86, 89, 90, 93;
conference at