Chapter III: March

Through the mud to the trenches--French reserves in the
woods--Hidden batteries--Unwise photography--Shrapnel
too close for comfort--Chased by shell-fire--In Hooge
dug-outs--Reminiscences of the first Battle of Ypres--A tour
of the first-line trenches in the rain--Loopholes--Views by
periscope--Sharpshooting--A mouthful of glass--Photographs in
Zillebeke Churchyard--Calling down shrapnel fire--A scamper
out of Zillebeke--Hooge at night--A mine explosion--Mixed
plans--Storming the mine-crater--Amusing German prisoners--The
London "'bus" abroad--A timely evacuation of a house in
Ypres--General Haig's order before Neuve Chapelle--Heavy British
gunning--The taking of the town of Neuve Chapelle--The failure to
go on--The reasons--The blame--German attack on St. Eloi--Fine
work by the Rifle Brigade--Territorials--Ploegsteert and the
Ploegsteert Wood--A run from Kemmel to Dickebusch--A shell in
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