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Title: Into the Jaws of Death

Author: Jack O'Brien

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INTO THE JAWS OF DEATH

by

PRIVATE JACK O'BRIEN

With Illustrations

New York
Dodd, Mead and Company
1919
Copyright, 1919, by
Dodd, Mead and Company, Inc.

TO LIEUT.-COLONEL J. F. L. EMBURY AND THE

OFFICERS AND MEN OF THE 28TH NORTHWEST

BATTALION, I RESPECTFULLY DEDICATE THIS BOOK

CONTENTS

Foreword

Chapter I

Chapter II

"My comrades, and what became of them, as told to me in letters, by my
old chum Bob Goddard."

The Red, Red Road to Hooge

"The Iron Sixth"

ILLUSTRATIONS

28th Battalion leaving Winnipeg on the 27th of May, 1915

General Ketchen

As I looked when I left Germany; As I looked before I saw Germany

FOREWORD

Having been asked by the Author of this Book, No. 73,194 Private Jack
O'Brien of the 28th Northwest Battalion, to write a few words as an
introduction to the story which he is placing before the public, it
gives me much pleasure to do so.

The 6th Canadian Infantry Brigade raised and organized from the four
western provinces of Canada has done its share and at the time of
writing it is still doing its share in the field against the common
enemy. The 28th Northwest Battalion, originally under the Command of
Lieut.-Col. J. F. L. Embury, C.M.G., has taken its share in all the
engagements in which the 6th Canadian Infantry Brigade took part,
including St. Eloi, Hooge, three engagements on the Somme, 15th
September, 26th September, and 1st October, 1916, as well as the
general engagements of Vimy Ridge, Fresnoy, Lens o