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LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

Y.M.C.A. and German observation station in the
trees at Achiet-le-Petit _Frontispiece_

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Hut in the grounds of the ruins of the
Hotel-de-Ville at Arras 16

One of many Y.M.C.A. huts built under shell-fire 17

The first Y.M.C.A. over the German trenches on
the Somme battlefield 32

The Y.M.C.A. in the orchard at Albert 33

A refuge for the refugees 48

Y.M.C.A. marquee in the shell-swept Somme area 49

Y.M.C.A. in a ruined parish hall in Flanders, June,
1916 64

Bapaume-Cambrai road, with trees all cut down by
the Germans 65

The Red Triangle in the support trenches 80

'George Williams House' in the front trenches 81

A half-way house to the trenches 81

The Y.M.C.A. in a ruined warehouse. Shell-hole in
floor of canteen 96

A Y.M.C.A. cellar at Ypres 97

Hut in wilderness of destruction. Cutting the
ice in shell-holes for water for tea--winter,
1916-17 112

Ruined house used by Y.M.C.A., propped up by timber 113

Canadian Y.M.C.A. dug-out in a mine crater on Vimy
Ridge, 1917 128

A Canadian Y.M.C.A. dug-out near Vimy Ridge 129

A great boon to British Tommy--a Y.M.C.A. well under
shell-fire 144

The Cambridge dug-out 144

A refuge for the walking wounded 145

Y.M.C.A. motor kitchen behind the lines 160

Indian troops at the sign of the Red Triangle 161

A shakedown in a London hut 176

Relatives of the dangerously wounded are looked
after by the Y.M.C.A. in France 176

Y.M.C.A. night motor transport 177

Y.M.C.A. in the front-line dug-outs on the
Palestine Front 192

Y.M.C.A. dug-out and canteen on Palestine Front 193

The Y.M.C.A. at Basra, Mesopotamia 208

The Central Y.M.C.A., Baghdad 209

The Red Triangle in Jerusalem 224

The Hexham Abbey hut, Scheveningen, Holland 224

Salonica: winter on the Doiran Front, showing
Y.M.C.A. tent 225

A welcome Y.M.C.A. in the trenches 225

Y.M.C.A. for interned prisoners of war, Leysin,
Switzerland 232