The Weary Road: Recollections of a Subaltern of Infantry

Albert Ancre Armistice Day Army arrived attack Authuille Aveluy bank barrage battalion battery battle battlefield Beaumont-Hamel became billet Boisselle bombardment bridge brigade British cemetery command communication trenches comrades craters dark dawn dead death Division Dorset Regiment dug-out England ERNEST SWINTON exploded fell field fighting Flanders fought friends front line German gunners headquarters heart heavy shell Highland honour infantry Julian Grenfell Kestell Kestell Cornish La Boisselle later light lives machine guns Man's Land marshes memories mess miles Millencourt mind Minenwerfer morning never Nieuport night non-commissioned officers occasion officers parapet Passchendaele passed peace platoon posts quiet R. E. Vernède railway rifle road rose round ruins scene sector shell fire shell-holes side soldier Somme spirit splendid stood subaltern Thiepval Wood tion train trees trench lines trench warfare troops uplands village watched weary winter wire wounded yards Ypres Yser