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Title: Q.6.a and Other places
Recollections of 1916, 1917 and 1918

Author: Francis Buckley

Release Date: May 19, 2008 [EBook #25528]

Language: English

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Q. 6. A

AND OTHER PLACES

Q. 6. A
AND OTHER PLACES

RECOLLECTIONS OF
1916, 1917, 1918

BY
FRANCIS BUCKLEY

LONDON
SPOTTISWOODE, BALLANTYNE & CO. LTD.
1 NEW-STREET SQUARE, E.C. 4
1920

INTRODUCTION

In the following pages I have tried to set down as faithfully as I can
some of the impressions which remain to me now of three years' service
in France and Flanders.

I have naturally suppressed much of the grim and ghastly horrors that
were shared by all in the fighting area. A narrative must be written
from some point of view, and I have had to select my own. I regret
that so much personal and trivial incident should appear. Perhaps