Description: Clouds That Flee The Reminiscences of Colonel Montague Cooke by Colonel Montague Cooke, D.S.O. Illustrated by the late Lt.-Col. E. A. Hobday, C.M.G., and two sketches by L. Raven Hill This is the 1935 First Edition Wide-ranging Memoirs covering pre-War service in India, London social life, the Royal Regiment of Artillery and the Great War (Western Front and Palestine). “Swiftly we advanced the guns to a forward position, bivouacking that night beyond the trenches we had captured, and the same night Beersheba was entered by our infantry (the 179th Brigade), not by the Anzac mounted corps as was reported, who, however, arrived there after the taking of Beersheba by London troops, 60th Division.” Front cover and spine Further images of this book are shown below Publisher and place of publication Dimensions in inches (to the nearest quarter-inch) London: Hutchinson & Co. (Publishers), Ltd. 6 inches wide x 9¼ inches tall Edition Length 1935 First Edition 288 pages + Publisher’s catalogue for Spring 1935 Condition of covers Internal condition Original red cloth gilt. The covers are rubbed and scuffed with some fading, particularly around the edges, and variation in colour. The covers have also bowed out (the rear cover more noticeably). The spine has faded fairly evenly. The spine ends and corners are bumped and frayed with minor splits to the cloth. The front free end-paper has been removed so that the volume now opens directly to the Half-Title page, which is very browned and discoloured (please see the final image below). There is a previous owner's name inscribed in ballpoint pen on the Dedication Page. The text is generally clean throughout (with a few pencilled markings) on tanned paper, and with some scattered foxing, while the illustrations have acquired a yellowish tinge. There is also a pencilled comment on the cartoon to face page 278. The edge of the text block is dust-stained and foxed, and there is a scratch in the fore-edge near the top corner. There is a musty smell. Dust-jacket present? Other comments No This remains a fairly clean example of the 1935 First Edition, noting some scuffing and fading to the bowed covers, the missing front free end-paper and fore-edge foxing. Illustrations, maps, etc Contents Please see below for details Please see below for details Post & shipping information Payment options The packed weight is approximately 900 grams. Full shipping/postage information is provided in a panel at the end of this listing. Payment options : UK buyers: cheque (in GBP), debit card, credit card (Visa, MasterCard but not Amex), PayPal International buyers: credit card (Visa, MasterCard but not Amex), PayPal Full payment information is provided in a panel at the end of this listing. Clouds That Flee Contents PART I THE GOOD OLD DAYS Chapter I Early Days A bath of brandy — Dinard — Windbags the governess — Breton aristocracy — The queen of Dinard — The Admiral — Diversions at Brighton — Mike — The Suffolk home — The family. Chapter II School Days Park Hill — Sir William Harcourt — Lord Tennyson — Royal pupils — Eton — Queen Victoria — The Kaiser's visit — Push-biking. Chapter III On the Stage Winston Churchill — Trouble at the Empire — H.R.H. Princess Christian — Theatricals at Bembridge — Roger Quilter — Plays of old days. Chapter IV The Militia The Duke of Beaufort — Welsh miners — Lord Raglan — Father Bernard Vaughan — Shooting at Bishopswood — Crammers. Chapter V Royal Regiment of Artillery Pembroke Dock — The " Jacket " — Practice camp on Salisbury Plain — The old " Five-nines " — The Colonel. Chapter VI Examinations The only prize — A. C. Benson — A tussle in the Finchley Road — The Duke of Teck — Yellow Peril — Colonel Phipps Hornby, V.C. Chapter VII Cricket and Hunting Old scores — Under arrest — Huntgrub — The drag — Sir Noel Birch — Driving four-in-hand — A good win — Hockey at Woolwich — Cricket weeks — Sir Douglas Hall — Tredegar Park — Glen Kidston — Ballywalter Park — A. A. Somerville — Hinton Admiral — The Test. Chapter VIII London St. John's Wood Barracks — Lord William Seymour — Queen Victoria's funeral — King Edward VII's First Parliament — Ceremonials — The gallop past — State balls — London of that day — Prince Arthur of Connaught — Sir David Erskine — Sir Colin Keppel — Club life — The King lunches — Music. Chapter IX The Frog Chapter X India H.M. Habibullah Khan, Amir of Afghanistan — Windbags' old pupil — Rawal Pindi — The Babus — Chaubattia with the Rifle Brigade — A bear shoot — Sir Harold Deane — The Khaiber Pass. Chapter XI Self-made Men The garden-party — The news-boy — Punch. Chapter XII Egypt Trouble in the Mess — Sir John Maxwell — A survey in the desert — Death of King Edward — Sir Eldon Gorst. Chapter XIII Military and Civilian Asides Blows on the golf links — Sir Charles Tucker — A salute to golfers — Rodin — Provost of Eton and Warden of Winchester — A sailing club dinner — Letting off steam — Tub-thumpers. Chapter XIV Before the War Lord Home and the new school of learning — Mounted policemen — General Rawlinson — Baillie of Dochfour — Inverness gathering — Good-bye roses. Chapter XV Good Soldiers and Others Smith-Dorrien — Wardrop — Charles Stirling — Arthur Kitty Sir Herbert Uniacke — Windbags' pupil again — " My father the General " — The galloping G.O.C. — Friction in Palestine. PART II WAR Introduction and Souvenir Chapter XVI 1914-1915 Sir Herbert Uniacke — Lyon Playfair — Preparations for the Battle of Loos — The battle — Highlanders and Guards — Sergeant Raynes, V.C. Chapter XVII The Somme With the 34th Tyneside Division — Colonel Warburton — The unlucky transference — Chaos — Unhappy messages — Invalided home — " No money in it." Chapter XVIII A Visit to India School of gunnery — Sir Charles Monro — Simla — Sir Arthur Barrett — Practice camp — Big manoeuvres — The interview at Whitehall. Chapter XIX Palestine Foreword — Brush with the staff at Taranto — " Scatters " Wilson, M.P. — Reconnaissance in the desert — Before Beersheba — British Yeomanry — General Bulfin — Taking of Jerusalem-Operations north of Jerusalem — Operations east of Jerusalem. Chapter XX France, 1918 Desolation — Captain the Hon. C. Monck, Coldstream Guards — Fifty-one months' fighting over Chapter XXI Germany, 1920 Inter-Allied Commission of Control — Dresden and Munich — Lord Kilmarnock — Bavaria in 1920 — The Prussian Problem — The Herr Doktor. Chapter XXII The Art of Living Commercial travellers — The English spinster — Slackness and ignorance — Gloomy homes — "Pigging it " — The wasp — Unbalanced females — A neighbour. Conclusion LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS Coronation of King Edward VII. The Author at Whitehall My Brother (Windbags' good Egg) in charge of the Author (not so good) Washbrook Grange My Father and Mother Winston Churchill, Hon. Lee Dillon, B. H. H. Cooke . At Henley Regatta. H.R.H. Prince of Wales. W. Dalziel Mackenzie of Farr Royal Procession, October 25th, 1902 Gioia (my second Daughter) " J" Battery at Rawal Pindi, 1907 As he vanished in the smoke he waved a flag over his head Twelve dead fellows lying near two stretched-out horses Round my guns fifteen silent forms lay stretched The slight figure of a Guards' officer leading his devoted men The Interview at Whitehall Peshawar, a city one can associate with the " Tales of the Arabian Nights" As the guns approached in line the suspecting Turk commenced rifle-firing British Yeomanry, with swords drawn, charging " ventre a terre " The surrender of Jerusalem handed to three Artillery officers A Russian woman came forward out of the crowd with an offering of newly baked bread Then suddenly round the corner appeared about fifty Turkish soldiers A crowd of natives followed us up the little street of Es Salt " Very well, then, take the damned things " . My three Daughters — Jenny, Gioia and Rosemary Clouds That Flee Excerpt: Chapter XVI 1914-1915 As regards preparations for Loos, in the course of a few days we had completed a dug-out which consisted of a room boarded in, papered and fitted out with electric light, four and a half feet below a metalled road. The size of the room was fourteen feet long, nine feet across and six feet in height. A passage was tunnelled under the railway to lead to this dug-out, and an exit on the opposite side of it led to a cellar of the house which comprised the O.P. (Observation Post). The O.P. was thoroughly strengthened, and I was given the assistance of 300 to 400 infantrymen to complete the task of converting the O.P. into a stronghold. Observation of fire was made through a hole in the wall, and a fair view of the plain to the east and the Hun trenches was obtained. Many hours were spent during this period in visiting the infantry trenches and in perfecting telephonic communication between guns and infantry. We had received orders to cut the barbed wire with gun-fire in front of the German front-line trenches, and to commence a bombardment on September 21st, a bombardment which was to last four days preparatory to an attack. Our orders were to ensure a passage being cut through the wire to enable our infantry to pass through on the clay of the attack, also to prevent the enemy from mending it. One gun only was used for this purpose. Firing continued for four days and lasted eight hours each day. At this time the remainder of the battery was firing day and night at the rate of about 800 rounds a day. On the second day of the bombardment the progress made by the wire-cutting gun had been so satisfactory that our task was considered sufficiently completed. Great gaps were made in the thick wire surrounding a sap, and posts and chevaux de frises were sent sky-high. The infantry expressed themselves satisfied, and their judgment proved later on to be correct, as the attacking infantry three days later passed straight through the wire without a stop. Arthur Radcliffe, my senior subaltern, assisted me in observation of fire during all this time from a position in the infantry trenches about 300 yards from the German trenches. On one occasion, whilst we were assisting the Division, what was called a "Chinese attack" took place. This was an attack by rifle-fire and shell-fire by our own Division on the German trenches opposite, of which no warning had been given us by our own Brigade Staff, with the result that there was very nearly a disaster for Radcliffe, our three telephonists and myself. The Germans retaliated. All of a sudden an intense rifle-fire took place to our immediate front, and the observation post was pitted with bullets. The iron plate holding the telescope through which I was observing was struck, and the whole place sang, with bullets and pip-squeaks. I hurried my party into a dug-out built of sand-bags and heavy beams. We had scarcely got inside before three shells hit the base of the dug out, a fourth shell burst on the roof, smashed in the roof of beams, and hurtled into the middle of us. Curiously enough no one was touched, although there were five of us in the tiny place of refuge about ten feet square. The objectives allotted to the 15th Highland Division were the German front-line trenches and second-line trenches with their right on Loos Cemetery inclusive, Loos village, and Hill 70. The assault was delivered by the 44th and 46th Infantry Brigades in four columns, two from each Brigade, each column consisting of one battalion. The 44th were responsible for the front and support trenches, the second-line trench, Loos village and Puit 15. The 46th were to attack on the right of the 44th Brigade. The 47th and 1st Divisions were to carry out a simultaneous attack on our right and left respectively. THE BATTLE On September 25th, the morning of the attack on Loos, we bombarded with very heavy shelling from 5.50 a.m. until 7.5 a.m., at which hour our infantry, the gallant 44th and 46th Brigades, were to advance. The scene at seven o'clock, just before the actual infantry attack, was weird in the extreme. In front one saw the open grass plain, intersected with white chalk trench lines, and beyond, in the early morning light, huge volumes of dense smoke were rising all along the line of trenches, while the red fire of bursting shells could be seen in all directions; the roar of hundreds of guns had been terrific, and now there was almost silence. All at once through the thick smoke we saw one solitary figure rise up on to the parapet. For many seconds this officer stood up alone, then as he vanished in the smoke he waved a flag over his head, and immediately the whole line of trenches was alive with human forms silhouetted against the dense background. The Highland Brigade was advancing. Just then an H.E. shell came smashing through the roof above us, and mercifully buried itself in the thick layer of sand-bags in the room. We lifted the fire of our guns over the heads of the infantry. Soon after this we ceased fire, as directed, and waited impatiently for our next orders. At 8 a.m. I telephoned through to ask if I could ride out and reconnoitre ahead for a position for the guns. I was told not to. Not until 5.30 that evening did we receive orders to advance. The 6th Cavalry Brigade came up, and their General (Campbell) and several of the officers, Cavalry and R.H.A., came in and refreshed themselves at our house. They were impatient, like ourselves, to push on. At 5.30 p.m. I received orders to reconnoitre a position about a mile ahead, to the south of some guns already in action. Radcliffe and I, a sergeant, the director man and three orderlies rode out. It was getting dark and raining pretty heavily. We groped our way through the remains of barbed wire and through the dead and wounded. The stretcher work had been very heavy. We passed many wounded who had been propped up, their legs strapped together. The sights and sounds were very heart-rending. The position for the guns was chosen and a possible O.P. half a mile ahead in the now deserted German trench. An orderly discovered me in the half-light: and informed me that the O.C. Brigade had been looking for me. After much difficulty we found this officer in a dug-out in the trenches. I was informed that the message I had received earlier in the evening from the Adjutant was incorrect, and that I now had orders to go forward and select a position in the folds of the ground north of Loos. To find a position for a battery in the dark in totally unknown country (a position which must be under cover) was, to say the least of it, no easy matter. No reconnaissance of any description had been made by the artillery in this direction. With some difficulty we found our horses and reached the Lens-Bethune road. Here the scene was indescribable : chaos reigned everywhere. Transport and ammunition wagons stood at right angles to the road, hones and mules faced in every direction, the result being that the whole road was a solid block of men and horses, mules and carts of every description. There was no Staff Officer at this time to direct the traffic. A little further up dead horses and mules lying across the road increased the obstruction. After great difficulties my party worked their way through and beyond the crowded road. We had left all signs of life behind, and only just ahead through the moonlight we heard the whistle of rifle bullets and occasionally the burst of shrapnel. A sharp turning to the left led us along an open, narrow road. Suddenly we pulled up. On the road, huddled up, were twelve dead fellows lying near two stretched-out horses. And everywhere to right and left one heard the moaning of the dying, crying for stretcher-bearers and water. I halted the party, and told them to wait until I returned. It seemed inconceivable that guns could come up so far, as rifle-fire sounded just ahead. I walked on up the road until I came to the buildings on the outskirts of Loos. I knew that my orders were to select a position, if possible the other side of Loos to where we were at that moment, and that there was nothing for it but to go on. I returned to my party, mounted, and we rode on. We dismounted at the north-west corner of Loos, and left our horses and horse-holders under some houses, a few yards from the cemetery. In a very short time, with the help of the bright moon, I was perfectly satisfied that the hiding of the guns in a fold of the ground was an impossibility and that no convenient fold existed. I instructed Radcliffe to return to Brigade Headquarters and explain the position of affairs. I then made a further reconnaissance on foot with the Sergeant. During all this time, as we were walking across the open grass, we were being sniped from the direction of where our horses had been left. Presently the shelling became so bad that we were obliged to take cover in a trench. Then the shelling on the cemetery and on the house (under the walls of which our horses and men were sheltering) became terrific. We did not expect to see our men and horses again. Clouds That Flee Excerpt: Chapter XIX Palestine . . . At streak of dawn young Philpott, one of my subalterns, and I were lying on the smooth hill-top, with a few stones heaped up in front of our heads as a shield, spotting out the enemy trenches on which we were to bear fire. Aerial photographs were the means of our recognizing our objectives (for every battery had been given its allotted trenches), and soon after daylight the British front was one blaze of gun-fire, the registration of enemy trenches and strongholds having commenced. Unlike the front in France, there was very little wire to be cut. Just before our infantry left their trenches to attack we dropped a shell right on top of a machine-gun squad, killing the whole detachment— a lucky shot. We rated the front trenches until our infantry were within seventy yards of them, then lifted the fire on to the flying Turk. It was a great sight to see our fellows charge forward. All the time bullets spluttered on the hard ground round about us, one bullet removing a stone which screened my head. One poor fellow lay dead at our side, but casualties were few. Swiftly we advanced the guns to a forward position, bivouacking that night beyond the trenches we had captured, and the same night Beersheba was entered by our infantry (the 179th Brigade), not by the Anzac mounted corps as was reported, who, however, arrived there after the taking of Beersheba by London troops, 60th Division. The XXth Corps consisted of 60th, 5 3 rd and 74th (Yeomanry) Divisions. The plan for the operations which had resulted in the capture of Beersheba and Gaza was as follows : The XXth Corps was to make the main attack, capture the former town and drive the enemy's left flank, while the cavalry worked on the outer flank. The XXIst Corps and the Navy were to occupy the enemy's attention at Gaza during the early stages at the battle by a continuous bombardment followed by an attack on his defences between the sea and Umbrella 11 i 11. This attack was timed to take place between the attack on Beersheba and the Kauwukah System in order to prevent the enemy reserves from moving against the XXth Corps during the second attack. An extract from the official account given out in November read as follows: " The attack on Beersheba commenced at dawn on October 31st from the south and south-west, and was undertaken by the 60th (London) and 74th (Yeomanry) Divisions. The 53rd Division and the Imperial Camel Corps Brigade were in position north of Saba Wadi to protect the left flank of the Corps, and demonstrated against the enemy trenches north of the Wadi. Advancing with the utmost gallantry, magnificently supported by our guns of all calibres, the 60th had actually carried the whole of the enemy's first line round Hill 1070 by half-past eight in the morning, and by two o'clock in the afternoon the two attacking Divisions had swept over the enemy's second line. The 74th Division then swung to their left and took all the enemy works to the north of the Wadi Saba. Meantime the cavalry had worked their way round to the north-east of the town to cut off the escape of the enemy, and captured some 1300 prisoners and 8 guns. The town itself was entered by the 60th Division infantry just after sundown, and the water supply which was essential to the latter operations was secured with the assistance of the cavalry. The prisoners and booty of the XXth Corps, as the result of the day's operations, consisted of 25 officers and 394 other ranks with 6 field-guns—these figures being exclusive of those captured by the cavalry. On November 1st the 53rd (Welsh) Division moved to the north of Beersheba and was soon in touch with enemy in the mountains. The advance of the 60th and 53rd was apparently a great surprise to the enemy, who hurriedly collected portions of four Divisions to oppose them. The task of our Divisions from now and until the final breaking of the Turkish centre on November 6th was to hold off this large enemy force, which could only be achieved by continuous fighting under very difficult conditions. Owing to the necessity of building up a sufficient forward reserve of ammunition and supplies, and to the fact that a bad khamseen blew steadily for three days, the second phase of the operations could not be undertaken until six days after the capture of Beersheba. Meanwhile the XXIst Corps had captured the whole of the enemy's first line at Gaza, from Umbrella Hill to the sea, and were inflicting heavy casualties on the garrison by continuous bombardment and in the repelling of many counter-attacks." Beersheba (or Bir es-seb'a) is, they say, one of the most ancient sites on record. Abraham here received his command to sacrifice Isaac. We descended the hills which lie to the west of the little town, crossed a wide, almost dried-up stony riverbed, by the side of which gorged-looking pariah dogs tore at the vitals of dead horses already distended by the hot sun. At the ford a Turkish wagon had failed to get away, and the two horses now lay dead with their heads in a pool of blood : a portion of the driver's garments hung over the tail-board. A steep incline led up from the dismal river-bed to the main street of Beersheba, a cluster of white square-built houses. A few scared Arabs and Bedouins cowered at the street corners as we approached. Water abounded in patches in the Wadi and in the town, as the modern Arabic name signifies, " Well of the Seven." On Sunday, November 4th, the 60th Division made a forced march to Irgieg. Very severe going it was in a country where few roads existed, where any change in dispositions of movements of large columns of troops of all arms must be skilfully concealed, and where men raised large clouds of dust, crossing deep wadis and moving over tracks heavy with sand dust. The second phase had as a main objective the water supply of Sharia, which involved the capture of the Kauwukah System of trenches, and was to be carried out by the 10th, 60th and 74th Divisions. At the same time the 53rd Division was to attack Tel el Khuteilfeh and protect the right flank of the XXth Corps. In the main attack everything- depended on the progress of the 74th Division on the right, who had as a task the capture of all the enemy trenches on the cast of the railway. These were strongly held by the enemy and bristled with machine-guns, and in addition the attack had of' necessity to take place over very open ground. The 74th, however, though only after very heavy fighting, captured all their objectives, taking many prisoners, 23 machine-guns and 8 guns; and, with their tight flank secured, the 60th and 10th Divisions quickly stormed the main Kauwukah System. The 60th were then reorganized with the utmost rapidity and drove straight at Sharia with orders to protect the water supply and form a bridge-head. In doing this they experienced much opposition, but succeeded in securing their objectives by the following morning, capturing many prisoners and four more guns. At dawn on November 7th the 10th Division was ordered to storm the Hapeira Tepe Redoubt. This work was of great natural strength, defended with numerous machine-guns, and well supported by artillery, but fell to our attack after a sharp fight. This affair resulted in the capture of several guns, including two 5-9 Krupp howitzers of the latest type and quite undamaged, and in the securing of the all-important water supply. The position on the 7th was that the enemy centre was pierced and a gap prepared for the cavalry. This result was due not only to the direct advance of the 10th, 60th and 74th Divisions but also largely to the resolution with which the 53 rd Division beat off all attempts by the enemy to attack the right flank of the 74th Division. The enemy was therefore compelled to evacuate the fortress of Gaza, and our cavalry, with the 60th Division representing the XXth Corps as a flying infantry column, was enabled to be loosed after the enemy. The 60th fought hard during the night of November 6/7th, and during November 7th and 8th, and pressed by the XXIst Corps and our cavalry, the enemy was forced across the Wadi Hesi—abandoning in his precipitate retreat the munitions and stores which had taken him six months to collect. The total capture reported of the XXth Corps up to November 8th consisted of about 72 officers, 1774 other ranks, 7 howitzers, 22 field-guns, 1 A.A. gun, 7 trench mortars, 36 machine-guns, several million rounds of S.A. and several thousand rounds of gun ammunition. The battle area had covered such a large extent of ground that no accurate count had been able to be made at that time. On the night of the 6th, after a very heavy day's fighting, we found ourselves bivouacked behind a mound which overlooked Sharia railway bridge. It had been a hard day's work and a very successful one too. It was a fine sight to see batteries of artillery under heavy shell-fire galloping into action in the open, and our infantry under the barrage fire seizing position after position with great gallantry. We had now come into open undulating country, in which a great field of view was given of the battle. I went forward alone to reconnoitre for a position. Whilst I lay down with my head just above the grass a Turkish battery chose this inopportune moment to register the very spot I was in, sending down three shells at a time. I was right in the fire, but escaped untouched. The battery commander on my left was shot through the leg. I had several narrow escapes that day. On the morning of the 7th I got orders to advance my guns to Sharia railway bridge. We were in action by 7 a.m. I rode forward to reconnoitre, and found one of the battalion commanders in bad plight. Three enemy machine-guns were annoying his headquarters. I told him I would bring one gun up to where we stood at the moment, within 1600 yards of a small white building in which the Turks had fixed up their machine-guns, and would endeavour to knock the machine-guns out. Young Philpott galloped back and brought up one of his guns. An exciting moment. I directed the fire : shell after shell went hurtling into the building until we saw the detachments flying out behind, when we raised the fire on to their retreating forms. That night the three deserted machine-guns were in our hands. Please note: to avoid opening the book out, with the risk of damaging the spine, some of the pages were slightly raised on the inner edge when being scanned, which has resulted in some blurring to the text and a shadow on the inside edge of the final images. Colour reproduction is shown as accurately as possible but please be aware that some colours are difficult to scan and may result in a slight variation from the colour shown below to the actual colour. 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Non-Fiction Subject: History & Military
Year Printed: 1935
Country/Region of Manufacture: Germany
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Illustrator: Lt.-Col. E. A. Hobday, C.M.G.
Author: Colonel Montague Cooke, D.S.O.
Language: English
Publisher: Hutchinson & Co. (Publishers), Ltd.
Place of Publication: London
Special Attributes: 1st Edition, Illustrated
