ILLUSTRATIONS
Reading edition
Punch’s Victory Cartoon used for the Battalion Christmas Card, 1918 Frontispiece
FACING PAGE
Portraits— Colonel E. Vansittart, D.S.O. 4 Lieut.-Col. J. C. Parker 26 Lieut.-Col. N. I. Whitty, D.S.O. 62 Lieut.-Col. H. J. Wenyon, D.S.O. 144 Lieutenant D. J. Dean, V.C. 224
Sanctuary Wood 34
Café Belge 34
Delville Wood 52
The Memorial Board to those who fell on the Somme, 1916, placed in Guillemont Cemetery 52
Philosophe Village 66
Posen Crater 66
The Double Crassier 72
xiiLoos Village and Puits 15, known as Tower Bridge 72
Battalion Headquarters in the Ramparts at Ypres 92
Ypres 92
The Menin Road at Hooge 128
Inverness Copse 128
Montigny Farm 136
Vendelles 136
The Cote Wood Positions 138
“Leicester Lounge” 138
The Tumulus 156
Vadencourt Château 156
Watling Street, Cooker Quarry, the Support Positions, and in the distance the Tumulus 160
The Bridge over the Omignon River 160
Fonches 182
Warvillers 182
Cité St. Pierre—The Opera House 200
Old German Concrete Observation Post in our Front Line opposite Lens 200
Hodson’s House 208
xiiiCameron Castle 208
Concrete Pill Box in Lens 220
Dean’s Post 220
Awoingt 236
Haussy 236
The River Selle and the Mill from which many Prisoners were taken 244
The Memorial Board at Haussy 244
MAPS
The Ypres Salient 132 To illustrate Phases II and V.
St. Quentin to Amiens 194 To illustrate Phase VII.
The Lens Area 232 To illustrate Phases IV and VIII.
Cambrai to Maubeuge 254 To illustrate the Final Advance. Phase IX.
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8th BATTALION, THE QUEEN’S OWN,
ROYAL WEST KENT REGIMENT