en 86

XII The Escape 104

XIII The Traitor at Vehnmoor 115

XIV Away Again 123

XV Paying the Piper 140

XVI The Third Escape 158

XVII What Happened in the Wood 177

XVIII The Last Lap 185

XIX Holland at Last 194

XX "It's a Way They Have in the Army" 203

The Evidence in the Case 210

ILLUSTRATIONS

Corporal (Now Sergeant) Edward Edwards, Princess
Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry _Frontispiece_

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British wounded waiting for transportation to a dressing
station 26

The Princess Patricias in billets at Westoutre, Belgium 26

German prisoners bringing wounded men down a communication
trench 42

Wounded Canadians receiving first aid after an attack 64

Recipes from Corporal Edward's Diary 84

Fellow prisoners at Giessen 98

Fellow prisoners at Giessen 98

Record of second escape and recapture 126

German prisoners at Southampton 136

High explosives bursting over German trenches 136

Salient details of the third escape 170

Private Mervin C. Simmons, C.E.F. 192

The cemetery at Celle Laager Z 1 Camp 206

Corporal Edwards after his escape 206

Homeward bound 220

THE ESCAPE OF A PRINCESS PAT

THE ESCAPE OF A PRINCESS PAT

CHAPTER I

POLYGON WOOD

Ypres and Hill 60--Preparing for the Gas--Why the Patricias
Cheered--The Retirement--The Thin Red Line.

The Princess Patricias had lain in Polygon