3
II. AT THE BASE DEPOT 11
III. THE WILTSHIRES 17
IV. THE BASE 26
V. A COUNCIL OF INDIA 36
VI. THE TROOP TRAIN 45

II

THE FRONT

VII. THE TWO RICHEBOURGS 59
VIII. IDOLS OF THE CAVE 65
IX. STOKES'S ACT 73
X. THE FRONT 92
XI. AT G.H.Q. 103
XII. MORT POUR LA PATRIE 119
XIII. MEAUX AND SOME BRIGANDS 128
XIV. THE CONCIERGE AT SENLIS 134

III

UNOFFICIAL INTERLUDES

XV. A "CONSEIL DE LA GUERRE" 143
XVI. PETER 154
XVII. THREE TRAVELLERS 166
XVIII. BARBARA 173
XIX. AN ARMY COUNCIL 178
XX. THE FUGITIVES 189
XXI. A "DUG-OUT" 195
XXII. CHRISTMAS EVE, 1914 202

IV

THE FRONT AGAIN

XXIII. THE COMING OF THE HUN 209
XXIV. THE HILL 226
XXV. THE DAY'S WORK 232
XXVI. FIAT JUSTITIA 244
XXVII. HIGHER EDUCATION 252
XXVIII. THE LITTLE TOWNS OF FLANDERS AND ARTOIS 259
XXIX. THE "FRONT" ONCE MORE 270
XXX. HOME AGAIN 288

I

THE BASE

I

BOBS BAHADUR

It had gone eight bells on the S.S. _G----_. The decks had been
washed down with the hosepipe and the men paraded for the morning's
inspection. The O.C. had scanned them with a roving eye, till catching
sight of an orderly two files from the left he had begged him, almost as
a personal favour, to get his hair cut. To an untutored mind the
orderly's hair was about one-eighth of an inch in length, but the O.C.
was inflexible. He was a colonel in that smartest of all medical
services, the I.M.S., whose members combine the extensive knowledge of
the general practitioner with the peculiar secrets of the Army surgeon,
and he was fastidious. Then he said "