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Title: Combed Out

Author: Fritz August Voigt

Release Date: July 24, 2005 [eBook #16355]

Language: English

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Transcriber's notes:

The author is listed as F.A.V. on the original title page. His
full name was Fritz August Voigt, although he chose to be
called Frederick.

Footnotes, being quite brief definitions, have been moved
inline [like this].

COMBED OUT

by

F. A. V.

The Swarthmore Press Ltd.
72, Oxford Street, London, W.1.

1920

CONTENTS

PAGE.
I.--SQUAD DRILL 1
II.--THE FATIGUE PARTY 9
III.--ON DETACHMENT 42
IV.--THE CASUALTY CLEARING STATION 53
V.--WALKING WOUNDED 74
VI.--AIR-RAIDS 90
VII.--THE GERMAN PUSH 109
VIII.--HOME ON LEAVE 127
IX.--ACROSS THE RIDGES 143
X.--THE ARMISTICE 155

"The silent, colossal National Lie that is the support and confederate
of all the tyrannies and shams and inequalities and unfairnesses that
affect the peoples--that is the one to throw bricks and sermons at."

(MARK TWAIN).

COMBED OUT

I

SQUAD DRILL

Our Sergeant looked at us contemptuously and we looked anxiously back at
him. Then he gave his first instructions:

"Now I'm goin' ter show yer 'ow ter do squad drill. It's quite
heasy--yer've only got ter use a bit o' common sense an' do hexac'ly as
I tell yer. Now we'll start w