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Harold Harvey. A Soldier's Sketches Under Fire
A Soldier's Sketches Under Fire
Table of Contents
SKETCHES
PART I
ON THE WAY TO THE FRONT
A SOLDIER'S SKETCHES UNDER FIRE
INTRODUCTORY
ON THE WAY TO THE FRONT
CHAPTER I
From Southampton to Malta
At Malta
Malta and the Pirates
Sergeants' Mess
Fortifications
The Maltese
CHAPTER II
FROM MALTA TO MARSEILLES
The Story of "The Marseillaise."
CHAPTER III
FROM MARSEILLES TO ARMENTIÈRES
Tub, Tea and a Halt
"Doomsday Book."
The Last Stage
Lady Angela Forbes's Soldiers' Home at Etaples
On the Road to the Trenches
PART II
AT THE FRONT
CHAPTER IV
SOME SAMPLE EXCITEMENTS OF LIFE IN THE TRENCHES
At Armentières
Fetching Water
Capture of a German Trench
A Night Relief
Ration Parties
Gathering In our Firewood
"Stand To."
CHAPTER V
THE LIGHTER SIDE OF TRENCH LIFE
Sing-Songs
"Dirty Dick's"
"Seventy-Five Hotel."
"Chicken Farm."
A French Comedian
CHAPTER VI
THE "MAKE" OF A BRITISH TRENCH
A Traverse
The Birth-Place of a Song
Trench Periscope
CHAPTER VII
THE RUSE OF A GERMAN SNIPER
The Sniper who Lived in a Tree
CHAPTER VIII
THREE DEATH TRAPS
Suicide Bridge
Suicide Signal Box
A Mile-and-a-Half of Hell
The Hole in the Wall
CHAPTER IX
GERMAN BEASTS IN A FRENCH CONVENT
CHAPTER X
ANOTHER SCENE OF BOCHE BRUTALITY
CHAPTER XI
THE TRICK THAT DIDN'T TRICK US
"Jam-tin Artillery Party."
Dilapidated Quarters
CHAPTER XII
THE BARRED ROAD TO CALAIS
"Golgotha."
In Hospital
With Cavalry in 1915
The British Trooper in the Trench Line. Through the Second Battle of Ypres
