SERVANTS OF THE GUNS
BY
JEFFERY E. JEFFERY
By the ears and the eyes and the brain,
By the limbs and the hands and the wings,
We are slaves to our masters the guns,
But their slaves are the masters of kings!
Gilbert Frankau.
By the limbs and the hands and the wings,
We are slaves to our masters the guns,
But their slaves are the masters of kings!
Gilbert Frankau.
LONDON
SMITH, ELDER & CO., 15 WATERLOO PLACE
1917
[All rights reserved]
PRINTED BY
WILLIAM CLOWES AND SONS, LIMITED
LONDON AND BECCLES, ENGLAND
TO
ONE WHO KNOWS NOTHING OF GUNS
BUT MUCH OF LIFE
MY MOTHER
CONTENTS
| PART I | |
| THE NEW "UBIQUE" | |
| PAGE | |
| Beginning Again | 3 |
| A Battery In Being | 20 |
| "In The Line" | 41 |
| Spit And Polish | 62 |
| A Battle | 76 |
| PART II | |
| AND THE OLD | |
| Bilfred | 101 |
| "The Progress Of Pickersdyke" | 124 |
| Snatty | 156 |
| Five-Four-Eight | 178 |
| PART III | |
| IN ENEMY HANDS | |
| Some Experiences of a Prisoner of War | 209 |
| Henry | 252 |
PART I
THE NEW "UBIQUE"
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BEGINNING AGAIN
As the long troop train rumbled slowly over thewater-logged wastes of Flanders,
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