inter,
1916-17 112

Ruined house used by Y.M.C.A., propped up by timber 113

Canadian Y.M.C.A. dug-out in a mine crater on Vimy
Ridge, 1917 128

A Canadian Y.M.C.A. dug-out near Vimy Ridge 129

A great boon to British Tommy--a Y.M.C.A. well under
shell-fire 144

The Cambridge dug-out 144

A refuge for the walking wounded 145

Y.M.C.A. motor kitchen behind the lines 160

Indian troops at the sign of the Red Triangle 161

A shakedown in a London hut 176

Relatives of the dangerously wounded are looked
after by the Y.M.C.A. in France 176

Y.M.C.A. night motor transport 177

Y.M.C.A. in the front-line dug-outs on the
Palestine Front 192

Y.M.C.A. dug-out and canteen on Palestine Front 193

The Y.M.C.A. at Basra, Mesopotamia 208

The Central Y.M.C.A., Baghdad 209

The Red Triangle in Jerusalem 224

The Hexham Abbey hut, Scheveningen, Holland 224

Salonica: winter on the Doiran Front, showing
Y.M.C.A. tent 225

A welcome Y.M.C.A. in the trenches 225

Y.M.C.A. for interned prisoners of war, Leysin,
Switzerland 232

CHAPTER I

THE COMING OF THE RED TRIANGLE

His Majesty congratulates the Association on the
successful results of its war work, which has done
everything conducive to the comfort and well-being
of the armies, supplying the special and peculiar
needs of men drawn from countries so different and
distant. It has worked in a practical, economical
and unostentatious manner, with consummate
knowledge of those with whom it has to deal. At
the same time the Association, by its spirit of
discipline, has earned the respect and approbation
of the military authorities.--HIS MAJESTY THE
KING.

IT was in the summer of 1901, in the old volunteer days, that the