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CONTENTS
[The Western Front]
[The Somme Battlefield]
[Trench Scenery]
[The Upper Hand]
[The British Navy and the Western Front]
ILLUSTRATIONS
| [I] | General Sir Douglas Haig |
| [II] | Grand’place And Ruins Of The Cloth Hall, Ypres |
| [III] | A Street In Ypres |
| [IV] | Distant View Of Ypres |
| [V] | A Village Church In Flanders |
| [VI] | The Battle Of The Somme |
| [VII] | “Tanks” |
| [VIII] | Ruined German Trenches, Near Contalmaison |
| [IX] | The Night Picket |
| [X] | Dug-outs |
| [XI] | Gordon Highlanders: Officers’ Mess |
| [XII] | Waiting For The Wounded |
| [XIII] | The Happy Warrior |
| [XV] | At A Base Station |
| [XVI] | On A Hospital Ship |
| [XVII] | Disembarked Troops Waiting To March Off |
| [XVIII] | Soldiers’ Billets—moonlight |
| [XIX] | A Gun Hospital |
| [XX] | An Observation Post |
| [THE SOMME BATTLEFIELD] | |
| [XXI] | Amiens Cathedral |
| [XXII] | The Virgin Of Montauban |
| [XXIII] | A Sketch In Albert |
| [XXIV] | Taking The Wounded On Board |
| [XXV] | “Walking Wounded” Sleeping On Deck |
| [XXVI] | (a and b) |
| “Walking Wounded” On A Hospital Ship | |
| “Walking Wounded” On A Hospital Ship | |
| [XXVII] | (a and b) |
| A Main Approach To The British Front | |
| “Road Liable To Be Shelled” | |
| [XXVIII] | Trouble On The Road |
| [XXIX] | British Troops On The March To The Somme |
| [XXX] | A Sketch At Contalmaison |
| [XXXI] | On The Somme: Sausage Balloons |
| [XXXII] | A Wrecked Aeroplane Near Albert |
| [XXXIII] | A Mess Of The Royal Flying Corps |
| [XXXIV] | Watching Our Artillery Fire On Trones Wood From Montauban |
| [XXXV] | (a and b) |
| In The Regained Territory | |
| [XXXVI] | A V.a.d. Rest Station |
| [XXXVII] | A Gateway At Arras |
| [XXXVIII] | Outside Arras, Near The German Lines |
| [XXXIX] | Watching German Prisoners |
| [XL] | On The Somme: “Mud” |
| [TRENCH SCENERY] | |
| [XLI] | Cassel |
| [XLII] | A Line Of Tanks |
| [XLIII] | A Kitchen In The Field |
| [XLIV] | The Gun Pit: Hardening The Steel |
| [XLV] | The Gun Pit: A Gun Jacket Entering The Oil Tank |
| [XLVI] | The Gun Pit: The Great Clutches Of The Crane |
| [XLVII] | Mounting A Great Gun |
| [XLVIII] | “The Hall Of The Million Shells” |
| [XLIX] | The Ruined Tower Of Bécordel-bécourt |
| [L] | Embarking The Wounded |
| [LI] | (a and b) |
| Mont St. Eloi | |
| Ruins Of Mametz | |
| [LII] | Ruined Trenches In Mametz Wood |
| [LIII] | “Thawing Out” |
| [LIV] | Disembarking |
| [LV] | Sleeping Wounded From The Somme |
| [LVI] | Distant Amiens |
| [LVII] | Scottish Soldiers In A French Barn |
| [LVIII] | Welsh Soldiers |
| [LIX] | A British Red Cross Depot At Boulogne |
| [LX] | Indian Cavalry |
| [THE UPPER HAND] | |
| [LXI] | Mounting A Great Gun |
| [LXII] | Erecting Aeroplanes |
| [LXIII] | An Aeroplane On The Stocks |
| [LXIV] | The Giant Slotters |
| [LXV] | Night Work On The Breech Of A Great Gun |
| [LXVI] | The Howitzer Shop |
| [LXVII] | The Night Shift Working On A Big Gun |
| [LXVIII] | Some Great Guns |
| [LXIX] | Moving Heavy Gun Tubes |
| [LXX] | A Coring Machine At Work On A Big Gun Tube |
| [LXXI] | Ruins Near Arras |
| [LXXII] | On The Somme: In The Old No Man’s Land |
| [LXXIII] | (a and b) |
| A Road Near The Front | |
| A Train Of Lorries | |
| [LXXIV] | On The Somme. R.f.c. Men Building Their Winter Hut |
| [LXXV] | Maricourt: The Ruins Of The Village |
| [LXXVI] | On The Somme, Near Mametz |
| [LXXVII] | A Market Place. Transport Resting |
| [LXXVIII] | (a and b) |
| The “Blighty Boat” And A Hospital Ship | |
| Scottish Troops On A Troopship | |
| [LXXIX] | Troops Returning From The Ancre |
| [LXXX] | A Hospital Ship At A Base |
| [THE BRITISH NAVY AND THE WESTERN FRONT] | |
| [LXXXI] | “Oiling”: A Battleship Taking In Oil Fuel At Sea |
| [LXXXII] | On A Battle-cruiser (H.m.s. “Lion”) |
| [LXXXIII] | H.m.s. “Lion” In Dry Dock |
| [LXXXIV] | On A Battleship: Lowering A Boat From The Main Derrick |
| [LXXXV] | Approaching A Battleship At Night |
| [LXXXVI] | A Line Of Destroyers |
| [LXXXVII] | On A Battleship: A Gun Turret |
| [LXXXVIII] | On A Battleship In The Forth |
| [XXXIX] | (a and b) |
| A Fleet Seascape | |
| The Crew At A Small Gun On A Battleship | |
| [XC] | The Fo’c’sle Of A Battleship |
| [XCI] | On A Battleship: The After Deck |
| [XCII] | Inside The Turret |
| [XCIII] | A Boiler Room On A Battleship |
| [XCIV] | (a and b) |
| Practice Firing: Big Guns On A Battleship | |
| On A Battleship: Sunset After A Wet Day | |
| [XCV] | On A Battleship: Airing Blankets |
| [XCVI] | Captain Cyril Fuller |
| [XCVII] | The Fleet’s Post Office |
| [XCVIII] | In The Submerged Torpedo Flat Of A Battleship |
| [XCIX] | Sailors On A Battleship Making Munitions For The Army |
| [C] | The Cinema On A Battleship |