Edited by FLORENCE VERE-LAURIE
Printed by
GALE & POLDEN, LTD
Wellington Works, Aldershot
1921
Contents
[FOREWORD]
[SKETCH OF LIEUT.-COLONEL LAURIE'S CAREER.]
[LETTERS OF NOVEMBER, 1914.]
[LETTERS OF DECEMBER, 1914.]
["CHRISTMAS IN THE CRIMEA.]
[LETTERS OF JANUARY, 1915.]
[LETTERS OF FEBRUARY, 1915.]
[LETTERS OF MARCH, 1915.]
["AFTERWARDS."]
TO HALIBURTON, BLANCHE, AND SYDNEY.
My dear Children,
I dedicate this little volume to you in memory of your father, who, as you know, fell on March 12th, 1915, in the Battle of Neuve Chapelle. These Letters, which were written to me from France during the first winter of the World War, do not in any way pretend to literary attainment; they are just the simple letters of a soldier recording as a diary the daily doings of his regiment at the front.