row,
That mark our place, and in the sky
The larks still bravely singing fly,
Scarce heard amid the guns below.

We are the dead, short days ago
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunsets glow,
Loved and were loved, and now we lie
In Flanders fields.

Take up our quarrel with the foe.
To you from failing hands we throw
The torch: be yours to hold it high.
If ye break faith with us who die
We shall not sleep, though poppies blow
In Flanders fields.

JOHN MACCRAE,
(Lt.-Col.)

_By permission of the author._

CONTENTS

PAGE
PREFACE xi

CHAPTER I.
ON THE ROAD TO A GREAT ADVENTURE 1

CHAPTER II.
ON SALISBURY PLAINS 11

CHAPTER III.
EARLY WAR DAYS IN LONDON 32

CHAPTER IV.
DAYS WHEN THINGS WENT WRONG 46

CHAPTER V.
THE LOST CANADIAN LABORATORY 62

CHAPTER VI.
THE DAYS BEFORE YPRES 70

CHAPTER VII.
THE SECOND BATTLE OF YPRES 83

CHAPTER VIII.
THE AFTERMATH OF THE GAS 107

CHAPTER IX.
THE MEDICAL ORGANIZATION OF THE BRITISH ARMY 125

CHAPTER X.
KEEPING THE BRITISH SOLDIER FIT 134

CHAPTER XI.
LABORATORY WORK IN THE FIELD 152

CHAPTER XII.
SKETCHES FROM A LABORATORY WINDOW 169

CHAPTER XIII.
PARIS IN WAR TIME 189

CHAPTER XIV.
TABLE TALK AT A FLANDERS MESS 211

CHAPTER XV.
ON THE BELGIAN BORDER 230

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

Colonel George G. Nasmith, C.M.G. Frontispiece

Mechanical Transports in Salisbury Floods 16

Major-General M.S. Mercer, C.B. 64

German Barrage Fire at Night 104

French Soldiers Advancing under Cover of Liquid Fire 176

The Camouflage 208

"Home, Sweet Home"--Mud Terrace 232

British Tanks as Used in the Flanders Offensive 248

PREFACE

On April 22nd