CONTENTS

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[PREFACE]xi
CHAPTER I.
[ON THE ROAD TO A GREAT ADVENTURE]1
CHAPTER II.
[ON SALISBURY PLAINS]11
CHAPTER III.
[EARLY WAR DAYS IN LONDON]32
CHAPTER IV.
[DAYS WHEN THINGS WENT WRONG]46
CHAPTER V.
[THE LOST CANADIAN LABORATORY]62
CHAPTER VI.
[THE DAYS BEFORE YPRES]70
CHAPTER VII.
[THE SECOND BATTLE OF YPRES]83
CHAPTER VIII.
[THE AFTERMATH OF THE GAS]107
CHAPTER IX.
[THE MEDICAL ORGANIZATION OF THE BRITISH ARMY]125
CHAPTER X.
[KEEPING THE BRITISH SOLDIER FIT]134
CHAPTER XI.
[LABORATORY WORK IN THE FIELD]152
CHAPTER XII.
[SKETCHES FROM A LABORATORY WINDOW]169
CHAPTER XIII.
[PARIS IN WAR TIME]189
CHAPTER XIV.
[TABLE TALK AT A FLANDERS MESS]211
CHAPTER XV.
[ON THE BELGIAN BORDER]230

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

[Colonel George G. Nasmith, C.M.G.]Frontispiece
[Mechanical Transports in Salisbury Floods]16
[Major-General M.S. Mercer, C.B.]64
[German Barrage Fire at Night]104
[French Soldiers Advancing under Cover of Liquid Fire]176
[The Camouflage]208
["Home, Sweet Home"—Mud Terrace]232
[British Tanks as Used in the Flanders Offensive]248