 Complete the following phrase:  When war was declared the Staff of the Irish Command became automatically the staff of the II Army Corps and accordingly with the outbreak of the First World War in August 1914, he was promoted brigadier general, and as part of the British Expeditionary Force in France took charge of the Adjutant and Quartermaster-Generals Department during the retreat of the 2nd Corps after the Battle of Mons, to Paris, and during the 