 Complete the following phrase:  Kearsey was promoted to captain on 12 March 1904, while the following year he was transferred to the 10th Royal Hussars. He then served in the Territorial Force as an adjutant from March 1908 to April 1911. With the outbreak of the First World War, Kearsey attended the Staff College, Camberley, and was promoted to major on 11 November 1914. At the start of the war, he was posted as part of the Embarkation Staff at Southampton, following which he proceeded to Belgium with the 1st Life Guards, 7th Cavalry Brigade. He took part in the First Battle of Ypres and saw action at 