CONTENTS

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[Preface]9
[Chapter I]
Kilties in Canada11
[Chapter II]
"The Red Watch" or 48th Highlanders18
[Chapter III]
The Newer Colonial Policy22
[Chapter IV]
The Call to Arms28
[Chapter V]
Organizing Imperial Battalions37
[Chapter VI]
The New Armada46
[Chapter VII]
Salisbury and the Stones of Stonehenge63
[Chapter VIII]
Under Field Marshal Earl Roberts72
[Chapter IX]
Moulding an Army81
[Chapter X]
His Majesty the King, and Field Marshal the Right Hon. Viscount Kitchener90
[Chapter XI]
Off for France100
[Chapter XII]
Somewhere in Flanders112
[Chapter XIII]
With Field Marshal Sir John French116
[Chapter XIV]
Under Hiex Shells122
[Chapter XV]
The Flare-lit Trenches of Fromelles132
[Chapter XVI]
With General Sir Douglas Haig146
[Chapter XVII]
The Battle of Neuve Chapelle155
[Chapter XVIII]
Billets and Bivouacs174
[Chapter XIX]
With General Sir Horace Smith-Dorrien182
[Chapter XX]
The Historic Salient at Ypres189
[Chapter XXI]
The Red Cock Crows197
[Chapter XXII]
German Gas and Turcos204
[Chapter XXIII]
The Battle of St. Julien216
[Chapter XXIV]
Hanging on228
[Chapter XXV]
All that was Left of Them245
[Chapter XXVI]
Digging in with General Snow257
[Chapter XXVII]
Twelve Glorious Days267
[Chapter XXVIII]
Winning Another Championship275
[Chapter XXIX]
An Appreciation of Valor281
[Chapter XXX]
Wanted, More and More of Them286
[Index]289


LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

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[Col. John A. Currie]Frontispiece
[Capt. R. Clifford Darling, Adjutant]24
[Officers of the 48th Highlanders]40
[Group of Non-Commissioned Officers, 48th Highlanders]56
[Aboard Ship in Winter Garb]72
[Our Pullman Coach]88
[48th Highlanders at Church Service near Messines]104
[Church Steeple where V.C. was Won]120
[Signallers in Flanders]136
[The Trenches in Winter]152
[First Aid in the Trenches]168
[Trenches at Neuve Chapelle]184
[Map of the Original Salient at Ypres]194
[The Famous Road to Ypres]200
[Map of the Break in the Salient]206
[Sniping Through a Port Hole]216
[A narrow Escape]232
[Map of the Salient Flattened]248
[The Muster of the 48th Highlanders after the Battle of St. Julien]264