covered area behind
Albert with the knowledge that more of our old school friends were at
that moment lying out wounded and dead in no man's land.

As we drove along the moonlit road from Albert on the way to Boulogne
we passed company after company of soldiers trudging along towards
the front; they did not sing. It was the 4th Canadian Division going
into action--about to experience that great adventure of battle for
which they had trained so long and had come so far to obtain.

Farther along the road we could hear away in the distance a song; we
could not distinguish the words but we knew that soon we would hear
"Pack up your troubles in your own kit bag and Smile, Smile, Smile!"
They were Canadians coming out of the trenches.

FOOTNOTES:

[1] Our men have since been astonished at the wonderful view of our
lines obtained from the Messines-Wytschaete ridge.

INDEX

A

Air service, 237;
battle, 88

Alderson, General, 94, 237

Advanced Dressing Station, 128

Ambulance, work of, 129;
Field, Canadian, No. 3., 104, 108

Artillery, Canadian, in billets, 22;
Shelling by, 158

Aubers ridge, battle of, 170

Australians, arrival of, from Gallipoli, 236

B

Band, British Guards, 173;
Indian, 174

Bailleul, garden in, 116, 240

Balbaud, Professor Paul, 121

Barrows, Roman, Salisbury Plains, 27

Battalion, first Canadian, 117;
third Canadian (Toronto), 70, 115;
Winnipeg rifles, 7;
work of medical officers of, 127

Baths, divisional, 146, 147

Bird life, Salisbury Plains, 25;
the nameless, 242

Bombs, on Bailleul, 233;
on Canadian Headquarters, 237;
on Merville, 72

Bournemouth, 52

Boyd, Capt, 104

Brielen, 91

British officers, 66

Buckingham Palace, investiture at, 230

Burstall, General (C.B.), 94, 237

C

Canadian contingent, first, leaving Gaspe, 5;
arrival at Plymouth, 9;
Salisbury Plain, 10;
sickness among, 19

Canadian division, first, review by King, 29;
after Neuve Chappelle, 70;
sports of, 74;
German attack upon, 97

Canadian division, second, arrival in France, 123

Canadians in Ypres Salient, 1916, 250, 252

Canadian graveyard, 176;
laboratory arrival in France, 65;
work of (See 'Laboratory').

Casualty clearing station, work of a, 128

Chalons-sur-Marne, 206

Champagne, visit to, 205

Channel, crossing the British, 232

Cartwright, Lt., 234

Chlorine gas used by Germans, 94
treatment of