Excerpt from The Track of the War
It is difficult for me to express my thanks to my good friend, Captain Albert de Keersmaecker, of Belgium, for the great assistance he has given me in the preparation of this book. Without his kindness in allowing me to travel with him in Belgium, it would have been impossible for me to have gone more than a few miles outside Antwerp, and these on foot. Any information I wanted I would have been compelled to gather in the cafes of the city from soldiers returned from the front, and in the hospitals from wounded men with somewhat hazy ideas as to what had really happened. For my geographical facts, for the translations of important papers, and for a hundred other things, I am indebted to my friend.
Of the personal bravery and the largeness of heart of Captain de Keersmaecker, of his cheerfulness under circumstances of gloom and horror, of his sympathy and tenderness towards the wounded men and the sick and the homeless, no words of mine can tell.
To Commandant Davreux, Equerry to King Albert, I owe my sincere thanks for many of the exclusive photographs published herein.
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