CONTENTS
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| [Note by the Editor] | ix | |
| [PART ONE] | ||
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| [History of the Civil Service Rifle Volunteers] | 1 | |
| [PART TWO Story of the 1st Battalion] | ||
| [Introduction] | 53 | |
| [Chapter I.] | “17th of March Men” | 55 |
| [Chapter II.] | Givenchy and Festubert | 59 |
| [Chapter III.] | A “Bon War” | 68 |
| [Chapter IV.] | Loos and the Spinney | 75 |
| [Chapter V.] | Winter in the Loos Salient | 81 |
| [Chapter VI.] | Notre Dame de Lorette | 90 |
| [Chapter VII.] | Vimy Ridge, 1916 | 93 |
| [Chapter VIII.] | Calonne Ricouart and Souchez | 100 |
| [Chapter IX.] | The Trek | 104 |
| [Chapter X.] | High Wood | 111 |
| [Chapter XI.] | Eaucourt L’Abbé and the Butte de Warlencourt | 118 |
| [Chapter XII.] | A Rest Cure in the Ypres Salient | 123 |
| [Chapter XIII.] | The Salient in Winter | 129 |
| [Chapter XIV.] | The Moringhem Trek | 135 |
| [Chapter XV.] | Messines, 7th June, 1917 | 140 |
| [Chapter XVI.] | The Renaissance | 147 |
| [Chapter XVII.] | Last Days in the Ypres Salient | 151 |
| [Chapter XVIII.] | Another Rest Cure—Gavrelle and Oppy | 158 |
| [Chapter XIX.] | Bourlon Wood and the Hindenburg Line | 162 |
| [Chapter XX.] | The Retreat | 177 |
| [Chapter XXI.] | Months of “Wind-up” | 191 |
| [Chapter XXII.] | Intensive Training | 197 |
| [Chapter XXIII.] | The Great Advance | 202 |
| [Chapter XXIV.] | Back to the Coalfields | 215 |
| [Chapter XXV.] | The Armistice | 218 |
| [Chapter XXVI.] | Home | 223 |
| [Story of the 2nd Battalion] | ||
| [Preface] | 227 | |
| [Chapter XXVII.] | Formation—Training—Irish Rebellion, 1916—Departure for France, June, 1916 | 228 |
| [Chapter XXVIII.] | France, 22nd June, 1916, to 19th November, 1916—In the Trenches at Neuville St. Vaast—Battalion Raid—Journey to Marseilles | 237 |
| [Chapter XXIX.] | The Voyage to Salonica—Malta—Salonica, 30th November, 1916—Journey to Katerina—Outpost at Stipi | 248 |
| [Chapter XXX.] | Leaving Katerina—Trek to the Doiran Front—Karasuli Night | 259 |
| [Chapter XXXI.] | On the Doiran-Vardar Front—The Advance | 267 |
| [Chapter XXXII.] | Alexandria, 23rd June, 1917—Ismailia—Belah—Desert Training—Gambli and Tel el Fara—El Shaulth—Preparations for the Palestine Offensive | 279 |
| [Chapter XXXIII.] | Beersheba, 1917, October 21st to November 4th—Wadi Welfare | 289 |
| [Chapter XXXIV.] | Kauwakah and Rushdi Systems—Attack—Sheria—Muntaret—Huj—Nejileh—and to Gaza via Sheria | 300 |
| [Chapter XXXV.] | The March from Gaza Up Country—Enab—The Capture of Jerusalem—Tel el Ful—Bireh | 311 |
| [Chapter XXXVI.] | Ibn Obeid—Bethany—Jebel Ektief—Jerusalem—Mukmas | 323 |
| [Chapter XXXVII.] | Jerusalem—Mukmas—Jericho—Es Salt—Wadi el Jib | 331 |
| [Chapter XXXVIII.] | El Haud—Ain Arik—Surafend—Kantara—Alexandria—Journey to Italy | 339 |
| [Chapter XXXIX.] | Journey through Italy and France—Reconstruction—Moulle—St. Sylvester Cappel—Mont Rouge—Locre—Dranoutre—Mont Vidagne | 348 |
| [Chapter XL.] | Neuve Eglise—Messines—Houthem—Wytschaete | 357 |
| [Chapter XLI.] | America Corner—The Attack—Crossing the Lys—Bousbecque—Roncq—The Pursuit to the Scheldt—Petit Tourcoing—Avelghem—The Armistice—Courtrai—March over Devastated Area—Boesinghem—Base Duties—The End | 363 |
| [Story of the 3rd Battalion] | ||
| [CHAPTER XLII] | 373 | |
| [Chapter XLIII.] | The Reconstituted Battalion | 379 |