LAN YOUNG, 2nd Bn. the Welch Regt.
CAPTAIN COLIN MACNAUGHTAN, 2nd Dragoon Guards.
LIEUTENANT RICHARD YOUNG, 9th Bn. the Welch Regt.

CONTENTS

PAGE
PREFACE ix

PART I
BELGIUM

CHAPTER I
ANTWERP 1

CHAPTER II
WITH DR. HECTOR MUNRO'S FLYING AMBULANCE CORPS 24

CHAPTER III
AT FURNES RAILWAY-STATION 60

CHAPTER IV
WORKING UNDER DIFFICULTIES 85

CHAPTER V
THE SPRING OFFENSIVE 111

CHAPTER VI
LAST DAYS IN FLANDERS 135

PART II
AT HOME

HOW THE MESSAGE WAS DELIVERED 159

PART III
RUSSIA AND THE PERSIAN FRONT

CHAPTER I
PETROGRAD 179

CHAPTER II
WAITING FOR WORK 204

CHAPTER III
SOME IMPRESSIONS OF TIFLIS AND ARMENIA 219

CHAPTER IV
ON THE PERSIAN FRONT 237

CHAPTER V
THE LAST JOURNEY 258

CONCLUSION 272

INDEX 281

PREFACE

In presenting these extracts from the diaries of my aunt, the late Miss
Macnaughtan, I feel it necessary to explain how they come to be
published, and the circumstances under which I have undertaken to edit
them.

After Miss Macnaughtan's death, her executors found among her papers a
great number of diaries. There were twenty-five closely written volumes,
which extended over a period of as many years, and formed an almost
complete record of every incident of her life during that time.

It is amazing that the journal was kept so regularly, as Miss
Macnaughtan suffered from writer's cramp, and the entries could only
have been written with great difficulty. Frequently a passage is begun
in the writing of her right, and finished in that of her left hand, and
I have seen her obliged to grasp her pencil in her clenched fist before
she was able to indite a line. In only one volume, however, do we find
that she availed herself of the services of her secretary to dictate the
ent