A Yankee in the Trenches

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Robert Derby Holmes. A Yankee in the Trenches

A Yankee in the Trenches

Table of Contents

FOREWORD

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

A YANKEE IN THE TRENCHES

CHAPTER I

JOINING THE BRITISH ARMY

CHAPTER II

GOING IN

CHAPTER III

A TRENCH RAID

CHAPTER IV

A FEW DAYS' REST IN BILLETS

CHAPTER V

FEEDING THE TOMMIES

CHAPTER VI

HIKING TO VIMY RIDGE

CHAPTER VII

FASCINATION OF PATROL WORK

CHAPTER VIII

ON THE GO

CHAPTER IX

FIRST SIGHT OF THE TANKS

CHAPTER X

FOLLOWING THE TANKS INTO BATTLE

CHAPTER XI

PRISONERS

CHAPTER XII

I BECOME A BOMBER

CHAPTER XIII

BACK ON THE SOMME AGAIN

CHAPTER XIV

THE LAST TIME OVER THE TOP

CHAPTER XV

BITS OF BLIGHTY

CHAPTER XVI

SUGGESTIONS FOR "SAMMY"

GLOSSARY OF ARMY SLANG

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Robert Derby Holmes

Published by Good Press, 2019

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After the issue we were split up into four lots for the four companies of the battalion, and after some "wangling" I got into Company C, where I stopped all the time I was in France. I was glad, because most of my chums were in that unit.

We got into our packs and started up the line immediately. As we neared the lines we were extended into artillery formation, that is, spread out so that a shell bursting in the road would inflict fewer casualties.

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