sary attention to the correction of the proofs, etc. Due allowance
must therefore be made for such errors as have crept into the pages.

The Publishers have felt obliged to delete the numbers of the
Territorial Battalions mentioned in the book, a fact which accounts for
occasional vagueness in terminology.

CONTENTS

PAGE

PUBLISHERS' NOTE v

CHAPTER

I. EASTWARD HO! 1

II. THE SUDAN 12

III. GALLIPOLI 23

IV. THE AUGUST BATTLES AT CAPE HELLES 33

V. TRENCH WARFARE ON GALLIPOLI 45

VI. THE STRAIN 56

VII. THE LIMIT 65

VIII. LAST WORDS ON GALLIPOLI 71

IX. REVIVAL IN EGYPT 76

X. ON THE SUEZ CANAL 82

XI. SINAI 88

XII. THE TERRITORIAL IDEA 95

APPENDIX--EXTRACT FROM A LETTER
FROM GENERAL WINGATE 100

INDEX 103

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

The Battalion Officers on Mobilization, August
1914 _Frontispiece_

FACING PAGE

Lieut.-Col. H.E. Gresham 2

Arrival at Khartum, 2nd October 1914 10

General Sir F.R. Wingate, G.C.B., K.C., M.G. 14

Map of Gallipoli 24

(a) In Khartum Station }
} 40
(b) In a Turkish Trench }

C Company, The British Camel Company 62

Group of Officers, Egypt, 1914 84

With Manchesters in the East

CHAPTER I

EASTWARD HO!

Our Battalion of the Manchesters was typical of the old Territorial
Force, whose memory has already faded in the glory of the greater Army
created during the War, but whose services in the period between the
retreat from Mons and the coming into action of "Kitchener's Men" claim