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Title: Three years in France with the Guns:
Being Episodes in the life of a Field Battery

Author: C. A. Rose

Release Date: November 14, 2006 [EBook #19814]

Language: English

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THREE YEARS IN FRANCE

WITH THE GUNS,

BEING

EPISODES IN THE LIFE OF A FIELD

BATTERY.

BY

C.A. ROSE, M.C.,

LATE OF THE

ROYAL FIELD ARTILLERY.

Printed By
The Allen Lithographic Co., Ltd.,
Kirkcaldy

INTRODUCTION.

These brief notes of experiences with the guns for thirty-eight months
in France were primarily penned for my own satisfaction. Friends who
read the manuscript expressed much interest in it, and added the hope
that it might be given a more permanent form. Hence it is that it is
now printed for private circulation.

The story is a simple record of the fortunes of my own Battery and
Brigade, and is intended as a tribute to the good comradeship which
existed, under all conditions, among all ranks.
C.A.R.
EDINBURGH,
_January, 1919._

CONTENTS.

Chapter I., Breaking us in, 1

" II., Our First Battle,