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[Illustration: FIELD MARSHAL SIR JOHN FRENCH
Commanding the British Forces in France and Belgium
(_From Painting by John St. Helier Lander._)]
[Illustration: GEN. SIR HORACE SMITH-DORRIEN
One of the British Corps Commanders
(_From Painting by John St Helier Lander._)]
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