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Title: An Onlooker in France 1917-1919

Author: William Orpen

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AN ONLOOKER IN FRANCE

[Illustration: I. _Field-Marshal Earl Haig of
Bemersyde, O.M., K.T., etc._]

AN ONLOOKER IN
FRANCE

1917-1919

BY
SIR WILLIAM ORPEN, K.B.E., R.A.

LONDON
WILLIAMS AND NORGATE
1921

Pictures and Text, Copyright 1921
by
Sir William Orpen, K.B.E., R.A.

Printed in Great Britain by Richard Clay & Sons, Limited,
Paris Garden, Stamford St., S.E. 1, and Bungay, Suffolk.

PREFACE (p. v)

This book must not be considered as a serious work on life in France
behind the lines, it is merely an attempt to record some certain
little incidents that occurred in my own life there.

The only thought I wish to convey is my sincere thanks for the
wonderful opportunity that was given me to look on and see the
fighting man, and to learn to revere and worship him--that is the only
serious thing. I wish to express my worship and reverence to that
gallant company, and to convey to those who are left my most sincere
thanks for all their marvellous kindness to me, a mere looker o