List of Illustrations.

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Plate I.[Frontispiece]
Brigadier-General Anthony M. Henley.
Plate II.[facing 8]
1. Group of Officers. N.B. Fleur de Lys.
2. Ridge occupied on August 5th, 1916.
3. Issue of Water: Morning of August 5th, 1916.
4. In Katia: August 6th, 1916.
Plate III.[facing 18]
1. Bivouac Shelters on the Desert.
2. Making the Railway over the Desert.
3. At El Mazar.
4. Digging a Well.

List of Sketch Maps.

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The Sinai Desert[21]
Nieuport and Coast Sector[57]
Round about Bapaume[78]
Attack on the Hindenburg Line, September 27th, 1918[125]
Area covered during advance of 42nd Division, 1918,[facing 143]

CHAPTER I.

Holding up the Turk.