Transcriber's note: Obvious printer's errors have been corrected. Hyphenation and accentuation have been standardised, all other inconsistencies are as in the original. The author's spelling has been maintained.
Lieut. Paul Jones.
(From a Photograph by his Brother.)
WAR LETTERS
OF A
PUBLIC-SCHOOL BOY
BY
PAUL JONES
Lieutenant of the Tank Corps
Scholar-Elect of Balliol College, Oxford: Head of the Modern Side and Captain of Football, Dulwich College, 1914
WITH A MEMOIR BY HIS FATHER
HARRY JONES
He was the very embodiment in himself of all that is best in the public-school spirit, the very incarnation of self-sacrifice and devotion.
A Dulwich Master.
WITH EIGHT PLATES
CASSELL AND COMPANY, LTD
London, New York, Toronto and Melbourne
1918
CONTENTS
- PAGE
- Introductory [1]
PART I. MEMOIR
Chapter
- Childhood [9]
- At Dulwich College [14]
- Football [28]
- Cricket [37]
- Editor of The Alleynian [41]
- Public Schools and the War [47]
- Tastes and Hobbies [52]
- Music [59]
- Literature and Ethics [72]
- History and Politics [85]
- In the Army [98]
- Personal Characteristics [110]
PART II. WAR LETTERS
- At a Home Port [121]
- With the 9th Cavalry Brigade [131]
- With a Supply Column [186]
- In the Somme Battlefield [202]
- With the 2nd Cavalry Brigade [212]
- With the Tank Corps [229]
PART III
LIST OF PLATES
- H. P. M. Jones as 2nd Lieut. A.S.C. [Frontispiece]
- To face page
- Paul as an Infant [8]
- In his 6th Year [12]
- Winning the Mile, March 27, 1915 [22]
- Dulwich College First XV, 1914-15 [28]
- Dulwich Modern Side XV, 1914-15 [32]
- Paul Jones in his 19th Year [110]
- As a Subaltern in the A.S.C. [120]