CHAPTER I Answering the Call

II En Route to Valcartier III Canada's War Camp IV Soldiers in the Making V Crossing the Atlantic VI Land Ahoy VII Salisbury Plain VIII Life in the English Camp IX Getting Ready to Go X Leaving for France XI Landing in France XII My Baptism of Fire XIII In the Front Line XIV Saxons and Prussians XV Training for Runner XVI By the Wayside XVII Steenvoorde XVIII Ypres XIX Battle of Ypres XX Hell Let Loose XXI Hanging On XXII Here They Come XXIII Fighting for Our Lives XXIV The Boches Balked XXV Fun and Fury XXVI Yser XXVII The Fun of It XXVIII Leaving Yser XXIX More Hell XXX The Last Fight XXXI The Aftermath XXXII In Heaven XXXIII Back to Earth XXXIV Home Epilogue

Illustrations

Harold Baldwin ... Frontispiece

The Bull-Dog Behind the Flag

The Remains of a Once Prosperous Village

Instruments of War and Peace Working Side by Side

Our Nest (Dugout) Is on the Right

Meals Are Any Time When One Is Hungry

What a First-Line Trench Looks Like

German Shell Exploding Near British Battery

A Monster British Gun

Moving a Gun into Position

A Winterly Morning

Writing to the Old Folks at Home

What Is Left of Ypres Cathedral

There Are Leisure Hours Even in the Front Trench

Cleaning-Up Time

Diagram No. 1

Diagram No. 2

The Yser Canal

Two Tommies Talking It Over

Ready for a Raid on the Enemy's Trenches

The Raiding Party Going to "Give 'Em Hell"

The "War Twins"

Feeling Good in Blighty

Holding the Line