gagements at, 275.

Plumer, Lieut.-General Sir Herbert, C.O., K.C.B., asked for as
G.O.C. 2nd Army Corps, to succeed Grierson, 38, 39.

Poincare, Raymond, President of the French, optimistic spirit of
(Aug. 15), 33;
anxiety of, for Paris, 95, 111;
offensive action by the British urged by, on Aug. 31, 95;
visit from;
views of, on the Antwerp situation, and on the divided control
of the British forces in France, 198-9.

_Points d'appui_, fortresses destined as, 52.

Poisoned gas, first use of, by the enemy, 356.

Poland, Russian operations in, as influencing plans in the West,
194, 301.

Pommeroeul, passage near, from Tournai; of the Haine valley, 49.

Pont du Hem, 3rd Division at (Oct. 13), 210.

Pont Rigneul, French cavalry at, 210.

Pont Ste. Maxence, 3rd Corps to entrain at, 187, 193.

Poperinghe, 322.

Poperinghe-Boeschete-Steenvoorde area, 2nd Division in, 222.

Press, the, French's efforts to use, in the direction of securing
more Munitions, 347.

Provins, 5th French Army near, 107, 109.

Prussian Guard, the, French capture of, at Berry-au-Bac, 157;
in attacks on Ypres salient, 277.

Prussian operations, Jena Campaign, and Napoleon's three
miscalculations of, 217.

Pulteney, Major-General W. P., C.B., G.O.C. 3rd Army Corps, 16, 94;
changes in troops under, 158;
career, character, and qualities of, 205-6;
in the Marne Battle, 129, 134, 135;
in the Aisne Battle, 145;
in the operations before and during the 1st Battle of Ypres, the
capture of Bailleul by, 205-6;
success of that struggle largely due to him, 206;
places taken by him, progress of and fine work by, 221;
cavalry supports sent to, 227;
and used at Wytschaete, 259;
a meeting with, 323.

Queen's Bays, _see_ Dragoon Guards, 2nd.

Queen's Royal West Surrey Regt., 18, 29.

Queen's Westminsters (16th County of London) Batt., The London
Regiment (Queen's Westminster Rifles); arrival of, 271;
fine condition and early use of, 295, 297.

Radinghem-Premesques-Houplines line, occupied by the 3rd Division,
221.

Raids _versus_ Frontal attacks, 131.

Railways of the area of the retreat from Mons, 52 _sqq._;
of the Marne area, 118.

Ramsgate and Dungeness, possibility of invasion between, 155.

Rawlinson, Major-General Sir Henry, C.V.O., G.O.C. 4th Division
later