CONTENTS

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[Note by the Editor]ix
[PART ONE]
[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 Festubert59
[Chapter III.]A “Bon War”68
[Chapter IV.]Loos and the Spinney75
[Chapter V.]Winter in the Loos Salient81
[Chapter VI.]Notre Dame de Lorette90
[Chapter VII.]Vimy Ridge, 191693
[Chapter VIII.]Calonne Ricouart and Souchez100
[Chapter IX.]The Trek104
[Chapter X.]High Wood111
[Chapter XI.]Eaucourt L’Abbé and the Butte de Warlencourt118
[Chapter XII.]A Rest Cure in the Ypres Salient123
[Chapter XIII.]The Salient in Winter129
[Chapter XIV.]The Moringhem Trek135
[Chapter XV.]Messines, 7th June, 1917140
[Chapter XVI.]The Renaissance147
[Chapter XVII.]Last Days in the Ypres Salient151
[Chapter XVIII.]Another Rest Cure—Gavrelle and Oppy158
[Chapter XIX.]Bourlon Wood and the Hindenburg Line162
[Chapter XX.]The Retreat177
[Chapter XXI.]Months of “Wind-up”191
[Chapter XXII.]Intensive Training197
[Chapter XXIII.]The Great Advance202
[Chapter XXIV.]Back to the Coalfields215
[Chapter XXV.]The Armistice218
[Chapter XXVI.]Home223
[Story of the 2nd Battalion]
[Preface]227
[Chapter XXVII.]Formation—Training—Irish Rebellion, 1916—Departure for France, June, 1916228
[Chapter XXVIII.]France, 22nd June, 1916, to 19th November, 1916—In the Trenches at Neuville St. Vaast—Battalion Raid—Journey to Marseilles237
[Chapter XXIX.]The Voyage to Salonica—Malta—Salonica, 30th November, 1916—Journey to Katerina—Outpost at Stipi248
[Chapter XXX.]Leaving Katerina—Trek to the Doiran Front—Karasuli Night259
[Chapter XXXI.]On the Doiran-Vardar Front—The Advance267
[Chapter XXXII.]Alexandria, 23rd June, 1917—Ismailia—Belah—Desert Training—Gambli and Tel el Fara—El Shaulth—Preparations for the Palestine Offensive279
[Chapter XXXIII.]Beersheba, 1917, October 21st to November 4th—Wadi Welfare289
[Chapter XXXIV.]Kauwakah and Rushdi Systems—Attack—Sheria—Muntaret—Huj—Nejileh—and to Gaza via Sheria300
[Chapter XXXV.]The March from Gaza Up Country—Enab—The Capture of Jerusalem—Tel el Ful—Bireh311
[Chapter XXXVI.]Ibn Obeid—Bethany—Jebel Ektief—Jerusalem—Mukmas323
[Chapter XXXVII.]Jerusalem—Mukmas—Jericho—Es Salt—Wadi el Jib331
[Chapter XXXVIII.]El Haud—Ain Arik—Surafend—Kantara—Alexandria—Journey to Italy339
[Chapter XXXIX.]Journey through Italy and France—Reconstruction—Moulle—St. Sylvester Cappel—Mont Rouge—Locre—Dranoutre—Mont Vidagne348
[Chapter XL.]Neuve Eglise—Messines—Houthem—Wytschaete357
[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 End363
[Story of the 3rd Battalion]
[CHAPTER XLII]373
[Chapter XLIII.]The Reconstituted Battalion379