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Title: Bullets & Billets

Author: Bruce Bairnsfather

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Bullets & Billets

By Bruce Bairnsfather

1916

TO MY OLD PALS,
"BILL," "BERT," AND "ALF,"
WHO HAVE SAT IN THE MUD WITH ME

CONTENTS

CHAPTER I
Landing at Havre--Tortoni's--Follow the tram lines--Orders
for the Front.

CHAPTER II
Tortuous travelling--Clippers and tablets--Dumped at a
siding--I join my Battalion.

CHAPTER III
Those Plugstreet trenches--Mud and rain--Flooded out--A
hopeless dawn.

CHAPTER IV
More mud--Rain and bullets--A bit of cake--"Wind up"--Night
rounds.

CHAPTER V
My man Friday--"Chuck us the biscuits"--Relieved--Billets.

CHAPTER VI
The Transport Farm--Fleeced by the Flemish--Riding--Nearing
Christmas.

CHAPTER VII
A projected attack---Digging a sap--An 'ell of a night--The
attack--Puncturing Prussians.

CHAPTER VIII
Christmas Eve--A lull in hate--Briton cum Boche.

CHAPTER IX
Souvenirs--A ride to Nieppe--Tea at H.Q.--Trenches once more.

CHAPTER X
My partial escape from the mud--The deserted village--My
"cottage."

CHAPTER XI
Stocktaking--Fortifying--Nebulous Fragments.

CHAPTER XII
A brain wave--Making a "funk hole"--Plugstreet Wood--Sniping.

CHAPTER XIII
Robinson Crusoe--That turbulent table.

CHAPTER XIV
The Amphibians--Fed-up, but determined--The gun parapet.

CHAPTER XV
Arrival of the "Johnsons"--"Where did that one go?"--The
First Fragment dispatched--The exodus--Where?

CHAPTER XVI
New trenches--The night inspection--Letter from the
_Bystander_.

CHAPTER XVII
Wulverghem--The Douve--Corduroy boards--Back at our farm.

CHAPTER XVIII
The painter and decorator--Fragments forming--Night on the
mud prairie.

CHAPTER XIX
Visions of leave--Dick Turpin--Leave!

CHAPTER XX
That Leave train--My old pal--London and home--The call of
the wild.

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