ER XXV
All that was Left of Them 245

CHAPTER XXVI
Digging in with General Snow 257

CHAPTER XXVII
Twelve Glorious Days 267

CHAPTER XXVIII
Winning Another Championship 275

CHAPTER XXIX
An Appreciation of Valor 281

CHAPTER XXX
Wanted, More and More of Them 286

Index 289

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

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Col. John A. Currie Frontispiece

Capt. R. Clifford Darling, Adjutant 24

Officers of the 48th Highlanders 40

Group of Non-Commissioned Officers, 48th Highlanders 56

Aboard Ship in Winter Garb 72

Our Pullman Coach 88

48th Highlanders at Church Service near Messines 104

Church Steeple where V.C. was Won 120

Signallers in Flanders 136

The Trenches in Winter 152

First Aid in the Trenches 168

Trenches at Neuve Chapelle 184

Map of the Original Salient at Ypres 194

The Famous Road to Ypres 200

Map of the Break in the Salient 206

Sniping Through a Port Hole 216

A narrow Escape 232

Map of the Salient Flattened 248

The Muster of the 48th Highlanders after the Battle of
St. Julien 264

PREFACE

The kind reception given to the rough notes from the Author's Diary,
which appeared first in the daily papers in Canada, encouraged the
production of this book. These notes, in order to make them more
readable, have been put in narrative form. There is no pretence that
this is a history of the war. It is only