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Title: On the right of the British line

Author: Gilbert Nobbs

Release Date: April 19, 2010 [EBook #32051]

Language: English

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ON THE RIGHT
OF THE BRITISH LINE

[Illustration: Captain Gilbert Nobbs.
_From a photograph by Aylett._]

ON THE RIGHT
OF THE BRITISH LINE

BY
CAPTAIN GILBERT NOBBS
(LATE L.R.B.)

NEW YORK
CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS
1917

COPYRIGHT, 1917, BY
CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS

Published September, 1917

BESIDES THE MAN WHO FIGHTS
THERE IS THE WOMAN WHO WAITS, AND
IN HUMBLE TRIBUTE TO HER SILENT HEROISM
I DEDICATE THIS BOOK

PREFACE

This is my first book. It is also my last. But I have a record to make
and a duty to perform. I was five weeks on the firing line; four weeks
mourned as dead; and three months a prisoner of war.

I have attempted to make a true record of all that happened. The names
alone are fictitious (all except that of Sanie