_This chapter comprises several distinct periods in the life of the
author._
_Captain Capart left Switzerland, August 2, 1914, to enlist in the
Belgian Army._[1]
_He took part in the siege of Antwerp up to its fall (October 10,
1914), then as corporal in the dark days of the retreat._
_From the month of December, 1914, he became attached to the French
Army. He was commissioned sub-lieutenant, January, 1915._
_The greater part of the stories in this chapter occurred during the
period between March 7, 1915 and July of the same year, during which
time he fought in the sector held by the Marine Fusiliers and that of
the Zouaves in the region of Nieuport._