ics 85
11. In the Army 98
12. Personal Characteristics 110

PART II. WAR LETTERS

At a Home Port 121
With the 9th Cavalry Brigade 131
With a Supply Column 186
In the Somme Battlefield 202
With the 2nd Cavalry Brigade 212
With the Tank Corps 229

PART III

Epilogue 257

INDEX 277

LIST OF PLATES

H. P. M. Jones as 2nd Lieut. A.S.C. _Frontispiece_

_To face page_
Paul as an Infant 8
In his 6th Year 12
Winning the Mile, March 27, 1915 22
Dulwich College First XV, 1914-15 28
Dulwich Modern Side XV, 1914-15 32
Paul Jones in his 19th Year 110
As a Subaltern in the A.S.C. 120

WAR LETTERS

OF A

PUBLIC-SCHOOL BOY

INTRODUCTORY

_These laid the world away; poured out the red
Sweet wine of youth; gave up the years to be
Of work and joy ...
And those who would have been,
Their sons, they gave, their immortality._

RUPERT BROOKE.

In deciding to publish some of the letters written by the late
Lieutenant H. P. M. Jones during his twenty-seven months' service with
the British Army, accompanying them with a memoir, I was actuated by a
desire, first, to enshrine the memory of a singularly noble and
attractive personality; secondly, to describe a career which, though
tragically cut short, was yet rich in honourable achievement; thirdly,
to show the influence of the Great War on the mind of a public-school
boy of high intellectual gifts and sensitive honour, who had shone
with equal lustre as a scholar and as an athlete.

My choice of the title of this book was determined by the frequent
allusions made by my son in his war letters to his old school. He
spent six and a half years at Dulwich College. His career there was
gloriously happy and very distinguished. On th