By the first of January, 1915, a large proportion of the officers and men of the original Expeditionary Force had perished.
I had first seen Sir William at a desk in a little room of a house in a French town when his business was that of transport and supply for the British Expeditionary Force.
The army now ceased to be an expeditionary force, and became settled as an army of occupation.
Several expeditionary columns were sent out round the country to bring in provisions and grain, and these were attended with great success.
Owing to the continued influx of recruits, the training companies having now each a strength of about 380, it was necessary to take over additional billets at Oakhill which were allotted to the Expeditionary Company.
Expeditionary Force who were not yet physically fit to return to their respective units.
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By the middle of August the greater part of the Expeditionary Force had been embarked to France, but the Brigade remained at its war station.
Amidst such scenery theexpeditionary flotilla began its voyage at eleven o'clock.
From Cape Takil to Ambalaki, where the expeditionary forces landed, the distance was about twelve miles.
Admiral Stewart went on board the Spitfire, and proceeded southwards, towards Kinburn Spit, to look out for the expeditionary column.
Ere the expeditionary force returned to Kamiesch and Kazatch the most effectual measures which could be adopted were used to put the garrison of Kinburn in safety for the winter.
The fleet proved an ideal testing vehicle for the expeditionary mast.
Illustration: The mooring mast made the blimps expeditionary craft, eliminated the need for large ground crews, permitted more flying days per month, increased safety.
Today's ships are expeditionary craft, can go almost anywhere, stay as long as they want.
A scout car cruises ahead to make overnight arrangements, a trailer follows, with its own electric plant and expeditionary equipment, including a spot light to play on the ship at night.
The experience accumulated by the blimp pilots under varying weather conditions over the country proved useful to the Navy, particularly in the expeditionary operations which coastal patrol would demand.
There were no tents nor waggons to bear out the illusion, but otherwise the scene resembled a bivouac of some expeditionary force.
An expeditionary force was detached by the Americans, which made a bold, though unsuccessful, attempt to retake Ticonderoga.
They speculated on how long it would take Hannibal to pursue and overtake Nero himself, and his expeditionary force.
He had been one of the original Expeditionary Force; but a sniper had sniped altogether too successfully out by Zillebecke in the early stages of the first battle of Ypres, and when that occurs a rest cure becomes necessary.
Would the Expeditionary Force have crossed so successfully, I wonder?
Supposing the Expeditionary Force were on the point of embarkation.
The Germans clearly took for machine-gun fire the rapid fire which the infantry of the original Expeditionary Force could maintain.
The British Expeditionary Force made as fine an effort to do so at Mons as was ever attempted in history, but they did not succeed.
For its own purposes, the British Expeditionary Force was well-nigh a perfect instrument.
So that little British Expeditionary Force, in ratio of number one to twenty or thirty of the French army, crossed the Channel to help save Belgium.
The more I learn, the more I am convinced that the Germans ought to have got the British Expeditionary Force; and the Germans were very surprised that they did not get it.
And the British Expeditionary Force was still intact; still an army, with lots of fight left in it.
When the British Expeditionary Force went to France it had none.
The Chief of Staff of the British Expeditionary Force, Sir William Robertson, was in the ranks for ten years.
The Turks had thoroughly mastered the principles of modern warfare under European conditions, and the task of the Allied Expeditionary Force was to be a very stiff one.
Guided by the stars, the Sub shaped a course which he reckoned would bring them within the district supposed to be held by the French Expeditionary Force.
You noticed he was very persistent in asking questions about the British Expeditionary Force in the Dardanelles?
Wellesley disembarked his expeditionary force in August, at Mondego Bay, a hundred miles north of Lisbon, which Junot held with twelve thousand men.
To him we owe theExpeditionary Force, the Territorials, the organisation of the General Staff, the Officers' Training Corps; and without his reforms our case would have been black indeed when the storm broke.
Meanwhile, what might have been "the effect of British intervention on a larger scale, in the earlier stages of the war, is shown by what was actually achieved by our original Expeditionary Force.
Only one of the machines which left with the original Expeditionary Force was fitted with "wireless" apparatus, and it was not used till the first Battle of the Aisne, when co-operation with the artillery first began.
France was in conflict with the Kroumirs on her Algerian frontier, the expeditionary force penetrated the interior, and by the middle of June the Bey had appointed M.
