On the Fringe of the Great Fight

by George Gallie Nasmith

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INDEX

• A
• Air service, [237];
  • battle, [88]
• Alderson, General, [94], [237]
• Advanced Dressing Station, [128]
• Ambulance, work of, [129];
  • Field, Canadian, No. 3., [104], [108]
• Artillery, Canadian, in billets, [22];
  • Shelling by, [158]
• Aubers ridge, battle of, [170]
• Australians, arrival of, from Gallipoli, [236]
  
• B
• Band, British Guards, [173];
  • Indian, [174]
• Bailleul, garden in, [116], [240]
• Balbaud, Professor Paul, [121]
• Barrows, Roman, Salisbury Plains, [27]
• Battalion, first Canadian, [117];
  • third Canadian (Toronto), [70], [115];
  • Winnipeg rifles, [7];
  • work of medical officers of, [127]
• Baths, divisional, [146], [147]
• Bird life, Salisbury Plains, [25];
  • the nameless, [242]
• Bombs, on Bailleul, [233];
  • on Canadian Headquarters, [237];
  • on Merville, [72]
• Bournemouth, [52]
• Boyd, Capt, [104]
• Brielen, [91]
• British officers, [66]
• Buckingham Palace, investiture at, [230]
• Burstall, General (C.B.), [94], [237]
  
• C
• Canadian contingent, first, leaving Gaspé, [5];
  • arrival at Plymouth, [9];
  • Salisbury Plain, [10];
  • sickness among, [19]
• Canadian division, first, review by King, [29];
  • after Neuve Chappelle, [70];
  • sports of, [74];
  • German attack upon, [97]
• Canadian division, second, arrival in France, [123]
• Canadians in Ypres Salient, 1916, [250], [252]
• Canadian graveyard, [176];
  • laboratory arrival in France, [65];
  • work of (See 'Laboratory').
• Casualty clearing station, work of a, [128]
• Chalons-sur-Marne, [206]
• Champagne, visit to, [205]
• Channel, crossing the British, [232]
• Cartwright, Lt., [234]
• Chlorine gas used by Germans, [94]
  • treatment of water (See 'Water'), [140], [155]
• Cole, Capt. Cooper, [234]
• Cock fighting in France, [73]
• Creeks, pollution of, [147]
  
• D
• Disease, (See 'Epidemics');
  • "Carriers" of, [139], [142]
• Dressing Station, Canadian Advanced, [99]
• Dysentery, suspected epidemic of, [157]
  
• E
• Ellis, Major Arthur, [68], [107], [164], [232], [242], [245]
• Epidemics, how spread, [136];
  • lack of, in British Army, [134]
• 
  
• F
• Festubert, battle of, [118], [166]
• Fire fete of Merville, [180]
  • France, [67];
  • Experience with Parisian flower-girl, [194];
  • in Bailleul garden, [239];
  • in Merville garden, [121]
• Flowers in Spring, England, [57];
  • front, visit to, [205]
• French artillery, [109];
• Foch, General, [106]
• Foster, Col. (C.B.) (Surgeon-General), [113]
• Funeral, a Canadian Soldier's, [116]
  
• G
  • attack by Germans, Spring, 1916, [240];
  • on Belgians, April, 1915, [111];
  • masks, suggested use of, [107];
  • poison, nature of, [94], [95], [107];
  • work of laboratory on, [115]
• Gas, original, attack on Canadians, April 22, 1915, [93];
• Gaspé basin, [5]
• Gooderham, Capt., [234]
• Graves, Canadian, [176]
  
• H
• Haig, General Sir Douglas, [170]
• Hardy, Lt.-Col. (D.S.O.), [101]
• Hayter, Lt.-Col. (D.S.O.), [234]
  • (Toronto), [115]
• Haywood, Major Alf. (M.C.), [71], [116]
  • French Canadian, Paris, [199];
  • at French front, [205];
  • barges, [131]
• Highlanders, Canadian, at Ypres, [96];
  • Lotti, Paris, 1916, [196];
  • de l'Angleterre Beuvais, 1916, [190];
  • Savoy, London, 1915-16, [36]
• Hospital on Salisbury Plain, [28];
• Hotel, Continental, Paris, 1916, [196];
• Hutchison, Capt. John, [71]
• Hughes, General Sir Sam, [2], [35]
• Hygiene work of laboratory, [154]
  
  • blind soldiers, Paris, [208]
• I
  • (Lahore) division, [107]
• Institute for maimed soldiers, Paris, [207];
• Indian band concert, France, [174];
• Inoculation against Typhoid in Canadians, [24]
• Investiture, a royal, [230]
  
• J
• Jutland, battle of, [244], [247]
  
• K
• Kemmel, hill of, [245]
• Kipple, Sgt., description by, [15]
• Kitchener, death of Lord, [247]
• Kirkpatrick, Major, [76]
• Klotz, Capt. Herbert, [30]
  
  • work of Canadian Mobile, [123], [152], [154], [159]
• L
• Laboratory, Canadian Mobile, [253];
• La Gorgue, [79]
• Laventie, [80]
• Larkhill, [18]
• Laundries, waste from army, [147]
• Leicester square, 1914-15, [37]
• Lice and typhus fever, [144]
• Lipsett, General (C.M.G.), [244]
• London, 1914, [32]
• Locre, [245]
  
• M
• Maclaren, Major, [100]
• Macpherson, Surgeon-General, [126], [169]
• Malaria, work of Rankin on, [163]
• Mavor, Major Wilfred (D.S.O., M.C.), [119]
• McBrien, Lt.-Col., (D.S.O.), [234]
• McPherson, Lt.-Col., (C.M.G.), [87]
• Mitchell, Lt.-Col., (C.M.G.), [100]
  • officer's duties, [127];
  • specialists, work of, [133];
  • stores, advanced depot, [133]
• Milk, use of, in army, [141]
• Medical service, British organization, [126], [138];
• Mercer, Major-General (C.B.), [70], [110], [117], [233], [234]
• Mignault, Lt.-Col., [199]
• Moroccan troops (French colonials), [96]
• Mosquitoes and Malaria, [143]
• Muntz, Capt. Jerry, [71]
  
• N
• New Zealand division, arrival of, [241]
  
• O
• Opera in Paris, 1916, [192]
  • demi-mondes, [193];
  • morality of, [194];
  • women and dress, [198];
  • Montmartre district, [191];
  • opera in, [192]
• Orbeliani, Prince, [202]
  
• P
• Paris at night, March, 1916, [195];
• Pasteur Institute, Paris, [204]
• Piccadilly circus, 1914-15, [37]
• Plague, how spread in armies, [149]
• Ploegsteert, [235-238]
• Prince of Wales, [251]
• Poperinge, [105], [107], [111], [113], [114]
• Pollution of water (See 'Water').
  
• Q
• Quaker search party, [142]
• Queen Mary battle cruiser, [8]
  
  • carry plague, [149];
  • story of, [150]
• R
• Rankin, Lt.-Col. Allan, [68], [93], [97], [112], [163], [232], [242]
• Rats, destruction of, in army, [204];
• Red Cross, Canadian, in Paris, [203]
• Rawlinson, General Sir Henry, [106]
• Refugees, [98], [102], [165]
• Rennie, General Robt., [70], [76]
• Roberts, Lord, funeral of, [42]
• Robertson, Capt. E., [99]
• Rowland, Capt. Sydney, [62]
• Ryerson, Capt. George, [71]
  • Silver Grill, [47];
  • Stonehenge, [27];
  • white horse, [26];
  • arrival at, [10];
  • description of, [11];
  • bird life, [25]
• Russian delegation, [249]
  
• S
• Salisbury Plain, Old Sarum, [26];
  • methods employed in field, [137]
• Sanitary Commission of War Allies, [189], [200]
• Sanitary section, organization of, [130]
• Sanitary officers, [132];
• Scrimger, Capt., (V.C.), [92]
• Serbia, Prince of, [197]
• Scott, (Canon) Lt.-Col. Frederick George, (C.M.G.), [86], [247]
• St. Jean, [88]
• St. Denis, [210]
• St. Eloi, [246], [248]
• St. Cloud hospital, [200]
• Search party (Quakers), [142]
• Sketches, Dirty Jock, etc., [184]
• Sloggett, Sir Arthur, [126]
• Somme, battle of, [249-253]
  
• T
• • absence of, in British army, [135]
• Tanks, [252]
• Tanner, Lt.-Col., [244]
• Tetanus, [153]
• Typhoid fever among refugees, [165]
• Typhus fever in Serbia, [144], [145], [201]
  
• U
• Ulster division, [252]
  
• V
• Valcartier camp, [1], [3]
• Verdun battle, Paris during, [191]
• Vlamertinge, [104]
• Van Straubenzie, Major, [70]
  
  • chlorination of, [140], [155];
  • mobile filters, [141];
  • supply, [140], [157];
  • purification, control of, [154], [156];
  • value of analysis, [156]
• W
• War office, London, 1914, [39]
• Warren, Capt. Trumbull, [91]
• Water carts, [155];
• Williams, General Vic., [244]
• Wickens, Major Bert, [71]
• Wieltze, [88], [98], [99]
• Winnipeg battalion, [7]
  • April 22, 1915, [84];
  • description of, [84];
  • history of, [85];
  • Cloth Hall of, [85];
  • second battle of, [94], [100], [102], [109], [114]
• Wounded, evacuation of, [128]
• Wytschaete, [245]
  
• Y
• Ypres, city of, April 17, 1915, [83];

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Further Notes:

Prince Orbeliani, indexed on page 260, to be mentioned on page 202, is not named in the main document.

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