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Jack O'Brien. Into the Jaws of Death
Into the Jaws of Death
Table of Contents
ILLUSTRATIONS
FOREWORD
INTO THE JAWS OF DEATH
CHAPTER I
[Illustration: 28TH BATTALION LEAVING WINNIPEG. ON THE 27TH OF MAY, 1915]
CHAPTER II
[Illustration: General Ketchen]
[Illustration: As I looked before I left Germany; as I looked before I saw Germany.]
"MY COMRADES, AND WHAT BECAME OF THEM, AS TOLD TO ME IN LETTERS, BY MY. OLD CHUM BOB GODDARD."
THE RED, RED ROAD TO HOOGE
"THE IRON SIXTH"
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Jack O'Brien
Published by Good Press, 2019
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Little things like this relieved the monotony of the days that otherwise were very much alike. We were drilled into shape and finally we came to take pleasure in doing things in the sharp brisk manner they required and in making as good a showing as possible—everything was for the honour of the battalion, and woe betide any one who was slovenly in his dress or who bungled his marching.
But we would have had a pretty lonely winter if it had not been for the great kindness shown us by some of the Winnipeg churches and also by individual ladies. Chief among these, I would like to take the liberty of mentioning Lady Nanton; she was the guardian angel of the 28th; the billiard room of her beautiful home was thrown open for our use every night in the week and a lunch was served to as many boys as cared to go. It was through the efforts of Lady Nanton that a smoking-room was erected for our benefit, for we were not allowed to smoke in barracks. I received parcels from her when I was a prisoner of war in Germany, and I leave you to imagine how much they were appreciated then; and now that the 28th boys are coming back wounded and broken in health it is Lady Nanton that still acts as guardian angel and gets everything possible for them.
