In the Firing Line: Stories of the War by Land and Sea
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Chapters (279)
- IN THE FIRING LINE
- CONTENTS
- IN THE FIRING LINE
- I The Baptism of Fire
- II The Four Days’ Battle Near Mons
- Letter 1.—From Sapper George Bryant, Royal Engineers, to his father, Mr. J. J. Bryant, of Fishponds:
- Letter 2.—From Driver W. Moore, Royal Field Artillery, to the superintendent of the “Cornwall” training ship, of which Driver Moore is an “old boy” still under twenty:
- Letter 3.—From Private G. Moody, to his parents at Beckenham:
- Letter 4.—From a Lincolnshire Sergeant to his brother:
- Letter 5.—From Private Levy, Royal Munster Fusiliers:
- Letter 6.—From Sergeant A. J. Smith, 1st Lincolnshire Regiment:
- Letter 7.—From Private J. R. Tait, of the 2nd Essex Regiment:
- Letter 8.—From an Oldham Private to his wife at Waterhead:
- Letter 9.—From a private of the 1st Lincolns to friends at Barton-on-Humber:
- Letter 10.—From one of the 9th Lancers to friends at Alfreton:
- Letter 11.—From a wounded Gordon Highlander to his father, Mr. Alexander Buchan, of Monymusk:
- Letter 12.—From Private J. Willis, of the Gordon Highlanders:
- Letter 13.—From Private G. Kay, of the 2nd Royal Scots, to his employer, a milkman, at Richmond:
- Letter 14.—From Sergeant Taylor, of the R.H.A.:
- Letter 15.—From Private J. Atkinson, of the Duke of Wellington’s West Riding Regiment, to his wife at Leeds:
- Letter 16.—From Private Robert Robertson, of the Argylls, to his parents at Musselburgh:
- Letter 17.—From Private Whitaker, of the Coldstream Guards:
- Letter 18.—From a private in the Coldstream Guards to his mother:
- Letter 19.—From a wounded English Officer, in a Belgian hospital, to his mother:
- Letter 20.—From W. Hawkins, of the 3rd Coldstream Guards:
- Letter 21.—From Sergeant Griffiths, of the Welsh Regiment, to his parents at Swansea:
- In Hospital.
- In Hospital.
- In Hospital.
- In Hospital.
- III The Destruction of Louvain
- IV The Fight in the North Sea
- Letter 22.—From Albert Roper, first-class petty officer of H.M. cruiser “Talbot,” to his brother at Leeds:
- Letter 23.—From Seaman Wilson, of the “Bacchante,” to his wife at Hunslet:
- Letter 24.—From a Welsh gunner on the “Arethusa”:
- Letter 25.—From Gunner John Meekly, of Leeds:
- Letter 26.—From Midshipman Hartley, of H.M. battle-cruiser “Lion,” to his parents at Burton-on-Trent:
- Letter 27.—From a Scottish seaman (Published in “The Scotsman”):
- Letter 28.—From a gun-room officer on H.M. battle-cruiser “Invincible,” to his parents at Hove:
- Letter 29.—From a Bluejacket in the North Sea, to his friends at Jarrow:
- Letter 30.—From Seaman-Gunner Brown, to his parents at Newport, Isle of Wight:
- Letter 31.—From a man in a warship’s engine-room:
- Letter 32.—From Seaman Jack Diggett, of West Bromwich, to his brother:
- Letter 33.—From a seaman on H.M.S. “Hearty”:
- Letter 34.—From a seaman on H.M. destroyer “Lurcher,” to a friend at Bradford:
- Letter 35.—From a Naval Lieutenant to a friend:
- Letter 36.—From a seaman on one of the British destroyers:
- Letter 37.—From a seaman on H.M.S. “New Zealand” to his uncle in Halifax:
- Letter 38.—From a seaman on board the flagship of the first destroyer squadron, to his friends at Wimbledon:
- Letter 39.—Front leading telegraphist H. Francis, of Croydon:
- Letter 40.—From Gunner T. White:
- V From Mons to the Walls of Paris
- Letter 41.—From Private Smiley, of the Gordon Highlanders, to his brother, Mr. G. A. Smiley, of Chepstow:
- Letter 42.—From Corporal W. Leonard, of the Army Service Corps (a South African War reservist) to his mother at Huddersfield:
- Letter 43.—From Corporal Edward Hood, to his father, at Taunton:
- Letter 44.—From Private William Burgess, of the Royal Field Artillery, to his parents at Ilfracombe:
- Letter 45.—From a Corporal in the King’s Royal Rifles, now at Woolwich Hospital:
- Letter 46.—From Lieutenant O. P. Edgcumbe, of 1st Battalion D.C.L.I., to his father, Sir Robert Edgcumbe, Commandant at Newquay:
- Letter 47.—From Private D. White:
- Letter 48.—From Private Spain, of the 4th Guards Brigade (late police-constable at Newry):
- Letter 49.—From Corporal Sam Moorhouse, of the King’s Own Yorkshire Light Infantry, to his wife at Birkby:
- Letter 50.—From Private E. W. Dyas, of the 11th Hussars, to his parents at Mountain Ash:
- Letter 51.—From Lieut. Oswald Anne, of the Royal Artillery, to his father, Major Anne, of Burghwallis Hall:
- Letter 52.—From a reservist in the Royal Field Artillery (Published in the “Glasgow Herald”):
- Letter 53.—Front Trooper S. Cargill:
- Letter 54.—Front an Irish soldier, to his sister in County Cork:
- Letter 55.—From Private Carwardine, to the father of a comrade-in-arms:
- Letter 56.—From Private G. Dunton, of the Royal Engineers, to his family at Coventry:
- Letter 57.—From a Manchester soldier, in a French hospital:
- Letter 58.—From Private A. McGillivray, a Highlander, to his mother:
- Letter 59.—From Private W. Bell, of the South Lancashire Regiment, to his wife:
- Letter 60.—From Corporal T. Trainor:
- Letter 61.—From an Artilleryman, to his wife at Sheerness:
- Letter 62.—From Lance-Corporal J. Preston, of the 2nd Battalion Inniskilling Fusiliers, to his wife at Banbridge:
- Letter 63.—From a Corporal in the Motor Cycle Section of the Royal Engineers:
- Letter 64.—From Corporal J. Bailey:
- Letter 65.—From a Sergeant in the Royal Field Artillery:
- Letter 66.—From Private J. Toal:
- Letter 67.—From Private W. Green:
- Letter 68.—From Private G. A. Turner, to his father, Mr. J. W. Turner, of Leeds (Published in the “Leeds Mercury”):
- Letter 69.—From an Infantryman in hospital (Published in the “Aldershot News”):
- Letter 70.—From Sapper H. Mugridge, R.E., to his mother at Uckfield:
- Letter 71.—From Sapper H. Mugridge, R.E. (Second letter, published in the “Sussex Daily News”):
- Letter 72.—From John Baker, of the Royal Flying Corps, to his parents at Boston, Lincolnshire:
- Letter 73.—From Private G. Rider:
- Letter 74.—From Private Martin O’Keefe, of the Royal Irish Rifles, to his friends at Belfast:
- Letter 75.—From Sergeant W. Holmes:
- Letter 76.—From Corporal J. Hammersley:
- Letter 77.—From Lance-Corporal T. Williams:
- Letter 78.—From a Non-commissioned Officer of Dragoons:
- Letter 79.—From Private Tom Savage, to his relatives at Larne:
- Letter 80.—From Mons. E. Hovelange, of Paris, written on August 30th, to Sir William Collins (Published in the “Sussex Daily News”):
- Letter 81.—From a young officer who has been through the whole campaign, from the landing of the British at Boulogne:
- IN HOSPITAL.
- IN HOSPITAL.
- IN HOSPITAL.
- VI The Spirit of Victory
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