CONTENTS
[CHAPTER I] Landing at Havre—Tortoni's—Follow the tram lines—Orders
for the Front.
[CHAPTER II] Tortuous travelling—Clippers and tablets—Dumped at a
siding—I join my Battalion.
[CHAPTER III] Those Plugstreet trenches—Mud and rain—Flooded out—A
hopeless dawn.
[CHAPTER IV] More mud—Rain and bullets—A bit of cake—"Wind up"—Night
rounds.
[CHAPTER V] My man Friday—"Chuck us the biscuits"—Relieved—Billets.
[CHAPTER VI] The Transport Farm—Fleeced by the Flemish—Riding—Nearing
Christmas.
[CHAPTER VII] A projected attack—-Digging a sap—An 'ell of a night—The
attack—Puncturing Prussians.
[CHAPTER VIII] Christmas Eve—A lull in hate—Briton cum Boche.
[CHAPTER IX] Souvenirs—A ride to Nieppe—Tea at H.Q.—Trenches once more.
[CHAPTER X] My partial escape from the mud—The deserted village—My
"cottage."
[CHAPTER XI] Stocktaking—Fortifying—Nebulous Fragments.
[CHAPTER XII] A brain wave—Making a "funk hole"—Plugstreet Wood—Sniping.
[CHAPTER XIII] Robinson Crusoe—That turbulent table.
[CHAPTER XIV] The Amphibians—Fed-up, but determined—The gun parapet.
[CHAPTER XV] Arrival of the "Johnsons"—"Where did that one go?"—The
First Fragment dispatched—The exodus—Where?
[CHAPTER XVI] New trenches—The night inspection—Letter from the
Bystander.
[CHAPTER XVII] Wulverghem—The Douve—Corduroy boards—Back at our farm.
[CHAPTER XVIII] The painter and decorator—Fragments forming—Night on the
mud prairie.
[CHAPTER XIX] Visions of leave—Dick Turpin—Leave!
[CHAPTER XX] That Leave train—My old pal—London and home—The call of
the wild.
[CHAPTER XXI] Back from leave—That "blinkin' moon"—Johnson 'oles—Tommy
and "frightfulness"—Exploring expedition.
[CHAPTER XXII] A daylight stalk—The disused trench—"Did they see me?"—A
good sniping position.
[CHAPTER XXIII] Our moated farm—Wulverghem—The Curé's house—A shattered
Church—More "heavies"—A farm on fire.
[CHAPTER XXIV] That ration fatigue—Sketches in request—Bailleul—Baths and
lunatics—How to conduct a war.
[CHAPTER XXV] Getting stale—Longing for change—We leave the Douve—On the
march—Spotted fever—Ten days' rest.
[CHAPTER XXVI] A pleasant change—Suzette, Berthe and Marthe—"La jeune
fille farouche"—André.
[CHAPTER XXVII] Getting fit—Caricaturing the Curé—"Dirty work ahead"—A
projected attack—Unlooked-for orders.
[CHAPTER XXVIII] We march for Ypres—Halt at Locre—A bleak camp and meagre
fare—Signs of battle—First view of Ypres.
[CHAPTER XXIX] Getting nearer—A lugubrious party—Still nearer—Blazing
Ypres—Orders for attack.
[CHAPTER XXX] Rain and mud—A trying march—In the thick of it—A wounded
officer—Heavy shelling—I get my "quietus!"
[CHAPTER XXXI] Slowly recovering—Field hospital—Ambulance train—Back in
England.