Front matter
Edwin Gile Rich translation
COVERED WITH MUD AND GLORY
“He’s Hit,” Sergeant Lace Cries suddenly. And indeed He Is Hit. See page 101
COVERED WITH MUD AND GLORY
A Machine Gun Company in Action
(“Ma Mitrailleuse”)
BY GEORGES LAFOND
Sergeant-Major, Territorial Hussars, French Army; Intelligence Officer, Machine Gun Sections, French Colonial Infantry
With a Preface by Maurice Barrès of the French Academy
Translated by Edwin Gile Rich
INCLUDING “A Tribute to the Soldiers of France”
BY GEORGES CLEMENCEAU
BOSTON SMALL, MAYNARD & COMPANY PUBLISHERS
Copyright, 1918 By Small, Maynard & Company (INCORPORATED)
THE UNIVERSITY PRESS, CAMBRIDGE, U. S. A.
To the Memory of
My Comrades of the second company of machine guns of the ... first Colonials
who fell at the battle of the Somme in July, 1916, and of the Aisne in April, 1917;
To
Lieutenants Maisonnave and Dupouy
in remembrance of the hours of fine, sincere comradeship we lived together;
To
Denys Maurin
the quartermaster-sergeant, wounded heroically before Soissons, in testimony of a sincere friendship which was born under shell-fire, which grew amid the horrors of grim madness, and which was firmly fixed through sharing common hopes and common joys;
I dedicate these simple pages which are only a modest contribution to the monumental narrative which these anonymous epics of every day would make