In deepest gratitude I felt I could be amongst the smilers that day, for both my own sons, who faced death to the very end in so many of the theatres of war to which our armies were sent, had survived.
The boat that took me back to Ireland eventually had no protecting airship serpentining above us. We could breathe freely now!
[Illustration: A POST-CARD, FOUND ON A GERMAN PRISONER, WITH “SCOTLAND FOR EVER” TURNED INTO PRUSSIAN CAVALRY, TYPIFYING THE VICTORIOUS ON-RUSH OF THE GERMAN ARMY IN THE NEW YEAR, 1915.]
Alexandra, Queen, launches _Queen_, 288 _seq._
“Balaclava,” composition, 138; copyright sold, 151; exhibited, 152.
Burchett, Mr., 39, 41, 42, 44, 48, 50, 101.
Butler, Elizabeth, Lady, birth and education, 1; visits to Italy, 3, 54 _seq._, 147 _seq._, 159 _seq._, 252 seq., 279 _seq._, 306, 311 _seq._; taste for drawing, 4; early sketches, 7; commences Diary, 7; artistic training, 10, 14, 39 _seq._, 60 _seq._, 77; German experiences, 19 _seq._, 179 seq.; visits Waterloo, 31; taste for military subjects, 46; early exhibits, 50; sells water-colours, 96; first military drawings, 98; conversion to Catholicism, 99; first Academy picture, 99; photographs, 114; at Lord Mayor’s banquets, 122, 139, 153, 193; present from Queen Victoria, 125; visits Paris, 127 _seq._; proposed election as R.A., 153; marriage, 168, Irish experiences, 169 _seq._, 199, 304; tour in Pyrenees, 175; paints “Rorke’s Drift” for Queen Victoria, 187 _seq._; life at Plymouth, 191; Tel-el-Kebir picture, 194; residence in Egypt, 196, 202 _seq._; in Brittany, 198; paints 24th Dragoons, 199; tour in Palestine, 221; Aldershot life, 234 _seq._; residence at Dover, 260; in South Africa, 275; at Devonport, 277; tour in France, 298; “one-man” shows, 303, 318, 321, 329, 331.
----, Richard (Urban), at Downside, 297; enters Benedictine Order, 302; ordained as priest, 311; presented to Pius X., 315; as army chaplain, 321; war experiences, 330.
Butler, General Sir William, marriage, 168; German tour, 179 _seq._; Zulu War, 183; friendship with Empress Eugénie, 185, 241, 257; at Plymouth, 191; at Lord Mayor’s banquet, 193; Egyptian campaign (1882), 193; Gordon expedition, 194; Wady Halfa command, 196; receives K.C.B., 199; Alexandria command, 200; Aldershot command, 234, 284; Dover command, 260; South African command, 275; attacks on, 276; Devonport command, 277; tour in France, 298; asked to stand for Parliament, 303; on Royal Commission, 303; speeches in Ireland, 309; death, 310.