CONTENTS

[An Introduction Mainly About Scouts]

PART I
"THE CALL TO ARMS"

CHAPTER
I. [The Call Reaches Some Far-Out Australians]
II. [An All-British Ship]
III. [Human Snowballs]
IV. [Training-Camp Life]
V. [Concentrated for Embarkation]
VI. [Many Weeks at Sea]

PART II
EGYPT

VII. [The Land of Sand and Sweat]
VIII. [Heliopolis]
IX. [The Desert]
X. [Picketing in Cairo]
XI. ["Nipper"]

PART III
GALLIPOLI

XII. [The Adventure of Youth]
XIII. [The Landing That Could Not Succeed—But Did]
XIV. [Holding On and Nibbling]
XV. [The Evacuation]
XVI. ["Ships That Pass…"]

PART IV
THE WESTERN FRONT

XVII. [Ferry Post and the Suez Canal Defenses]
XVIII. [First Days in France]
XIX. [The Battle of Fleurbaix]
XX. [Days and Nights of Strafe]
XXI. [The Village of Sleep]
XXII. [The Somme]
XXIII. [The Army's Pair of Eyes]
XXIV. [Nights in No Man's Land]
XXV. [Spy-Hunting]
XXVI. [Bapaume and "a Blighty"]

PART V
HOSPITAL LIFE

XXVII. [In France]
XXVIII. [In London]
XXIX. [The Hospital-Ship]
XXX. [In Australia]
XXXI. [Using an Irishman's Nerve]

PART VI
MEDITATIONS IN THE TRENCHES

XXXII. [The Right Infantry Weapons]
XXXIII. [The Forcing-House of Bestiality]
XXXIV. [The Psychology of Fear]
XXXV. [The Splendor of the Present Opportunity]
XXXVI. [Not a Fight for "Race" but for "Right"]
XXXVII. ["Keeping Faith with the Dead"]
[Poem, "But a Short Time to Live"]