A Soldier's Sketches Under Fire
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Chapters (72)
- A SOLDIER'S SKETCHES UNDER FIRE
- FORENOTE
- CONTENTS
- SKETCHES
- PART I.
- ON THE WAY TO THE FRONT.
- A SOLDIER'S SKETCHES UNDER FIRE.
- INTRODUCTORY.
- ON THE WAY TO THE FRONT.
- CHAPTER I.
- From Southampton to Malta.
- At Malta.
- Malta and the Pirates.
- Sergeants' Mess.
- Fortifications.
- The Maltese.
- CHAPTER II.
- FROM MALTA TO MARSEILLES.
- The Story of "The Marseillaise."
- CHAPTER III.
- FROM MARSEILLES TO ARMENTIÈRES.
- Tub, Tea and a Halt.
- "Doomsday Book."
- The Last Stage.
- Lady Angela Forbes's Soldiers' Home at Etaples.
- On the Road to the Trenches.
- PART II.
- AT THE FRONT.
- CHAPTER IV.
- SOME SAMPLE EXCITEMENTS OF LIFE IN THE TRENCHES.
- At Armentières.
- Fetching Water.
- Capture of a German Trench.
- A Night Relief.
- Ration Parties.
- Gathering In our Firewood.
- "Stand To."
- CHAPTER V.
- THE LIGHTER SIDE OF TRENCH LIFE.
- Sing-Songs.
- "Dirty Dick's".
- "Seventy-Five Hotel."
- "Chicken Farm."
- A French Comedian.
- CHAPTER VI.
- THE "MAKE" OF A BRITISH TRENCH.
- A Traverse.
- The Birth-Place of a Song.
- Trench Periscope.
- CHAPTER VII.
- THE RUSE OF A GERMAN SNIPER.
- The Sniper who Lived in a Tree.
- CHAPTER VIII.
- THREE DEATH TRAPS.
- Suicide Bridge.
- Suicide Signal Box.
- A Mile-and-a-Half of Hell.
- The Hole in the Wall.
- CHAPTER IX.
- GERMAN BEASTS IN A FRENCH CONVENT.
- CHAPTER X.
- ANOTHER SCENE OF BOCHE BRUTALITY.
- CHAPTER XI.
- THE TRICK THAT DIDN'T TRICK US.
- "Jam-tin Artillery Party."
- Dilapidated Quarters.
- CHAPTER XII.
- THE BARRED ROAD TO CALAIS.
- "Golgotha.".
- In Hospital.
- With Cavalry in 1915.
- The British Trooper in the Trench Line. Through the Second Battle of Ypres.
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