The First Hundred Thousand by Ian Hay
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A SAFETY MATCH. With frontispiece.
A MAN'S MAN. With frontispiece. THE RIGHT STUFF. With frontispiece. TO MY WIFE PUBLISHERS' NOTE The "Junior Sub," who writes the following account of the experiences of some of the first hundred thousand of Kitchener's army, is, as the title-page of the volume now reveals, Ian Hay Beith, author of those deservedly popular novels, _The Right Stuff, A Man's Man, A Safety Match_, and _Happy-Go-Lucky_. Captain Beith, who was born in 1876 and therefore narrowly came within the age limit for military service, enlisted at the first outbreak of hostilities in the summer of 1914, and was made a sub-lieutenant in the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders. After training throughout the fall and winter at Aldershot, he accompanied his regiment to the front in April, and, as his narrative discloses, immediately saw some very active service and rapidly rose to the rank of captain. In the offensive of September, Captain Beith's division was badly cut up and seriously reduced in numbers. He has lately been transferred to a machine-gun division, and "for some mysterious reason"--as he |
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