Front matter
Reading edition
BY
JEFFERY E. JEFFERY
By the ears and the eyes and the brain, By the limbs and the hands and the wings, We are slaves to our masters the guns, But their slaves are the masters of kings! Gilbert Frankau.
LONDON SMITH, ELDER & CO., 15 WATERLOO PLACE 1917 [All rights reserved]
PRINTED BY WILLIAM CLOWES AND SONS, LIMITED LONDON AND BECCLES, ENGLAND
TO ONE WHO KNOWS NOTHING OF GUNS BUT MUCH OF LIFE
MY MOTHER
CONTENTS
PART I
THE NEW "UBIQUE"
PAGE
Beginning Again 3
A Battery In Being 20
"In The Line" 41
Spit And Polish 62
A Battle 76
PART II
AND THE OLD
Bilfred 101
"The Progress Of Pickersdyke" 124
Snatty 156
Five-Four-Eight 178
PART III
IN ENEMY HANDS
Some Experiences of a Prisoner of War 209
Henry 252