AND AN INTRODUCTION BY
Colonel W. H. AMES, T.D.

WITH MAPS AND ILLUSTRATIONS BY THE AUTHOR

OXFORD
B. H. BLACKWELL, BROAD STREET
MCMXX

LIST OF PLATES

[A Soldier of the Battalion]
[Colonel W. H. Ames, T.D.]
[Pay-day for 'A' Company]
[Robecq from the South]
[Brigadier-General the Hon. R. White, C.B.]
[A Front-line Post]
[Company Sergeant-Major E. Brooks, V.C.]
[Vlamertinghe—The Road to Ypres]
[Hill 35, from an aeroplane photograph]
[A Street in Arras]
['Tank Dump']
[In a German gun-pit near Gavrelle]
[The Canal du Nord at Ypres]
[Lieut.-Colonel H. E. de R. Wetherall, D.S.O., M.C.]
[Robecq. Old Mill and Bridge]
[The Headquarters Runners, July, 1918]
[Corporal A. Wilcox, V.C.]
[Officers of the Battalion, December, 1918]
[184th Infantry Brigade Staff]
[The Adjutant. Cambrai. The Battalion Cooks]
[Lieut.-Colonel E. M. Woulfe-Flanagan, C.M.G., D.S.O.
R.S.M. W. Hedley, D.C.M.
R.Q.M.S. Hedges]

ILLUSTRATIONS IN THE TEXT

[Winchester Trench]
[The March to the Somme]
[Somme Trench Map]
[Maison Ponthieu]
[Harbonnières]
[The Ablaincourt Sector]
[A Duckboarded Communication Trench]
[The Advance to St. Quentin]
[The Raid near St. Quentin]
[Arras: The Grande Place]
[Noeux Village]
[Poperinghe from the West]
[The Attack of August 22, 1917]
[The Attack on Hill 35]
[The Retreat behind the Somme]
[Bird's-eye Map of the Robecq Area]
[The Nieppe Forest]
[Merville Church]
[Battalion H.Q. at Chapelle Boom]

CONTENTS

[Introduction]

[Chapter I. LAVENTIE, May to October, 1916]