At Ypres with Best-Dunkley

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Thomas Hope Floyd. At Ypres with Best-Dunkley

At Ypres with Best-Dunkley

Table of Contents

I Dedicate this Book

FOREWORD

FOOTNOTE:

AT YPRES WITH BEST-DUNKLEY

CHAPTER I

OFF TO THE FRONT

CHAPTER II

THE PRISON

FOOTNOTE:

CHAPTER III

ENTER BEST-DUNKLEY

CHAPTER IV

MILLAIN

CHAPTER V

THE MARCH

CHAPTER VI

THE GENERAL'S SPEECH

CHAPTER VII

THE VALE OF ACQUIN

FOOTNOTE:

CHAPTER VIII

BACK TO THE SALIENT

CHAPTER IX

BILGE TRENCH

FOOTNOTE:

CHAPTER X

THE RAMPARTS

FOOTNOTES:

CHAPTER XI

MUSTARD OIL

FOOTNOTE:

CHAPTER XII

THE CITY AND THE TRENCHES

CHAPTER XIII

RELIEF

FOOTNOTE:

CHAPTER XIV

WATOU

FOOTNOTES:

CHAPTER XV

THE DAYS BEFORE

CHAPTER XVI

THE BATTLE OF YPRES

FOOTNOTES:

APPENDICES

APPENDIX I

MURRAY AND ALLENBY

APPENDIX II

THE INFANTRY AT MINDEN

APPENDIX III

GENERAL RAWLINSON AND OSTEND

APPENDIX IV

EDWARD III AND THE ORDER OF THE GARTER

APPENDIX V

GOLDFISH CHÂTEAU

THE ROAD TO EN-DOR

By E. H. JONES, Lt, I.A.R.O

THE SILENCE OF COLONEL BRAMBLE

By ANDRÉ MAUROIS

A KUT PRISONER

By Lieut. H. C. W. BISHOP. Illustrated. 6s. 6d. net

SONNETS FROM A PRISON CAMP

By ARCHIBALD ALLEN BOWMAN

SAPPER

DOROTHY LAWRENCE

A Last Diary of the Great Warr

By SAML. PEPYS, Jun

The Hohenzollerns in America

And Other Impossibilities. By STEPHEN LEACOCK

Temporary Crusaders

By CECIL SOMMERS

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Thomas Hope Floyd

Published by Good Press, 2019

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"Leigh got up before 4 this morning, as his train up the line left soon after that. I got up at 6, and had breakfast. My kit was taken down to the New Siding Station where I had to report at 7.50. The place was, as usual, crowded with troops waiting to go up the line. There was a train full of Portuguese troops in the siding. I reported to the R.T.O. He said 'Get in officer's coach marked C, and get out at Béthune.' Then he suddenly discovered that my name was crossed out. 'I've got your name crossed off here; I don't think you are to go. You had better stand by a few minutes while I telephone and find out,' he remarked. He then telephoned to Headquarters and, after about ten minutes, the reply came through: 'Not to proceed.' There had been a mistake about the division or something. Anyhow, I was ordered to return to camp. So I told my man to take my kit back, and returned. The others went up the line. It is funny, isn't it? I am amused. I take all these changes with equal equanimity. I am quite agreeable whatever happens. … I know that whatever happens all will turn out right. I shall arrive at the right place at the right time. It is most interesting. I expect you will be pleased at the delay!

"When I got back I saw the Adjutant and reported to him. He was with the padre, an Irishman who was an officer in Carson's Ulster Volunteer Force, at the time. He was amused, and the padre said 'Lucky man!' So I have had a nice easy day, writing letters and strolling about. …

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