- At a Home Port [121]
- With the 9th Cavalry Brigade [131]
- With a Supply Column [186]
- In the Somme Battlefield [202]
- With the 2nd Cavalry Brigade [212]
- With the Tank Corps [229]
PART III
LIST OF PLATES
- H. P. M. Jones as 2nd Lieut. A.S.C. [Frontispiece]
- To face page
- Paul as an Infant [8]
- In his 6th Year [12]
- Winning the Mile, March 27, 1915 [22]
- Dulwich College First XV, 1914-15 [28]
- Dulwich Modern Side XV, 1914-15 [32]
- Paul Jones in his 19th Year [110]
- As a Subaltern in the A.S.C. [120]
WAR LETTERS
OF A
PUBLIC-SCHOOL BOY
INTRODUCTORY
These laid the world away; poured out the red
Sweet wine of youth; gave up the years to be
Of work and joy ...
And those who would have been,
Their sons, they gave, their immortality.
Rupert Brooke.
In deciding to publish some of the letters written by the late Lieutenant H. P. M. Jones during his twenty-seven months' service with the British Army, accompanying them with a memoir, I was actuated by a desire, first, to enshrine the memory of a singularly noble and attractive personality; secondly, to describe a career which, though tragically cut short, was yet rich in honourable achievement; thirdly, to show the influence of the Great War on the mind of a public-school boy of high intellectual gifts and sensitive honour, who had shone with equal lustre as a scholar and as an athlete.