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A Soldier's Sketches Under Fire - Harold Harvey
Harold Harvey
A Soldier's Sketches Under Fire
EAN 8596547338000
DigiCat, 2022
Contact: DigiCat@okpublishing.info
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.
SKETCHES
Table of Contents
Private Harold Harvey
Frontispiece
Aboard the Transport
Bivouac at Malta
Casement Gardens, Malta
Sergeants' Mess
Ordnance Department, Malta
On the Quayhead at Marseilles
Quayside, Marseilles
Forty Passengers in each Cattle Truck
A Wash and a Wait
Doomsday Book
: a French Lesson in a Cattle Truck
Lady Angela Forbes's Soldiers' Home at Etaples
Road to the Trenches
My Sketch-Book
Map: La Bassée-St. Julien
Outskirts of a Village
My First Sniping-Place
Captured German Trench
The Woodcutter's Hut
Typical Figures and Figure-Heads
Hammersmith Bridge
Dirty Dick's
Entrenching
the Piano
Seventy-Five Hotel
Chicken Farm
A French Comrade-Comedian
A Trench Sniper, Resting
A Traverse
The Birth-Place of a Song
Trench Periscope in Use
"
The White Farm
"
A German Sniper's Nest
"
Suicide Bridge
"
"
Suicide Signal Box
"
A Ghastly Promenade
The Hole in the Wall
A Violated Convent
Where Germans Raped and Murdered
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The Black Hole
"
The Black Tower
Where the Trap was Set
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Golgotha
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PART I.
Table of Contents
ON THE WAY TO THE FRONT.
Table of Contents
A SOLDIER'S SKETCHES UNDER FIRE.
Table of Contents
INTRODUCTORY.
Table of Contents
ON THE WAY TO THE FRONT.
Table of Contents
CHAPTER I.
Table of Contents
From Southampton to Malta
.
Table of Contents
Illustration. On the outbreak of the war I joined the Royal Fusiliers, uninfluenced by the appeal of wall-posters or the blandishments of a recruiting sergeant. My former experience as a trooper in the Hertfordshire Yeomanry being accounted unto me for military righteousness, I sailed with my regiment from Southampton on September 3rd, 1914. We thought we were bound for France direct, and only discovered on the passage that we were to be landed, first, at Malta.
I think I know the reason why the short trip across Channel was avoided, but, as it behoves me to be very careful about what I say on certain points, I don't state it.
I show the fore part of the boat, the bows being visible in the distance. The doorways on the right are those of the horse boxes, specially erected on the deck. In fact, the whole liner, with the most creditable completeness and celerity, had been specially fitted up for the use of the troops, still retaining its crew of Lascars, who did the swabbing down and rough work required.
My sketch shows a crane bringing up bales of fodder for the horses from the hold, with two officers standing by to give orders.
Aboard the Transport.Aboard the Transport.
We experienced some exciting incidents on the