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A. M. Beatson. The Motor-Bus in War
The Motor-Bus in War
Table of Contents
Chapter I
INTRODUCTION
Chapter II
"AU REVOIR" TO ENGLAND
Chapter III
RAILHEAD
Chapter IV
SUPPLY COLUMNS AND RATIONS
Chapter V
THE MOTOR-LORRY CONVOY
Chapter VI
THE WORKSHOPS
Chapter VII
LIFE BEHIND THE LINE
Chapter VIII
FROM BETHUNE TO YPRES
Chapter IX
MR. THOMAS ATKINS AND THE FRENCH
Chapter X
WITH THE R.H.A. BATTERIES
Chapter XI
ALONG THE SOMME VALLEY
Chapter XII
BETWEEN THE ANCRE AND THE SOMME
Chapter XIII
FROM ARRAS TO ALBERT
Chapter XIV
TO BAPAUME, PÉRONNE, AND BEYOND
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A. M. Beatson
Being the Impressions of an A.S.C. Officer during Two and a Half Years at the Front
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The A.M.P.O. receives and distributes the various boxes of presents, luxuries, and so forth, sent by friends at home through the M.F.O., Southampton, a task more arduous than it may appear, particularly about Christmas-time, and also dispatches home surplus personal and deceased officers' kits, etc. At each railhead there is to be found also a field post office. I need hardly add that from it His Majesty's mails, always so eagerly awaited by all of us, are distributed and loaded on to postal lorries of the Supply Column allotted for the purpose, which take the mails on to the units of the Division. The field post offices are in charge of the R.E.'s. What a wonderful corps the Sappers are! Their versatility and multifarious duties are truly remarkable, varying as they do from "tunnelling" and the administration of asphyxiating gases to the Huns from our front line trenches to the maintenance of telephone wires and the running of field post offices.
One of the excitements of railhead is the passing through of convoys of German prisoners en route to internment camps. On one occasion I happened to be at Merville and saw a party of prisoners marched into the railhead yard, where they were to entrain; their escort consisted of some Gurkhas, whom they looked on with evident signs of alarm and suspicion. The R.T.O. happened to be able to speak German, and very soon formed the prisoners up in two ranks and marched them to the train, giving his words of command in their own language, greatly, it need scarcely be added, to their surprise.
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