My acknowledgments are due to Messrs. Cassell and Company for their permission to include in this volume the sketch of Anzac which appeared in the _Anzac-Book_. HECTOR DINNING. Somme, _December, 1917_. CONTENTS BOOK I.--WAITING SECTION A.--ON THE WAY CHAPTER PAGE I. TRANSPORT 1 II. UP THE CANAL 13 III. ABBASSIEH 24 SECTION B.--CAIRO I. ON LEAVE IN CAIRO 33 II. THE MOOSKI 42 BOOK II.--GALLIPOLI I. THE JOURNEY 55 II. GLIMPSES OF ANZAC.--I. 67 III. GLIMPSES OF ANZAC.--II. 82 IV. SIGNALS 92 V. THE DESPATCH-RIDERS 96 VI. THE BLIZZARD 98 VII. EVACUATION 103 BOOK III.--BACK TO EGYPT I. LEMNOS 111 II. MAHSAMAH 118 III. CANAL-ZONE 127 IV. ALEXANDRIA THE THIRD TIME 138 V. THE LAST OF EGYPT 152 BOOK IV.--FRANCE SECTION A.--A BASE CHAPTER PAGE I. ENTRÉE 163 II. BILLETED 169 III. THE SEINE AT ROUEN 175 IV. ROUEN _REVUE_ 180 V. LA BOUILLE 184 SECTION B.--PICARDY AND THE SOMME I. BEHIND THE LINES.--I. 188 II. BEHIND THE LINES.--II. 196 III. C.C.S. 200 IV. THE FOUGHTEN-FIELD 213 V. AN ADVANCED RAILHEAD 219 VI. ARRAS AFTER THE PUSH 232 SECTION C.--FRENCH PROVINCIAL LIFE I. A MORNING IN PICARDY 242 II. THÉRÈSE 251 III. LEAVES FROM A VILLAGE DIARY 260 IV. THE CAFÉ DU PROGRÈS 270 V. L'HÔTEL DES BONS ENFANTS 275 VI. PROVINCIAL SHOPS 278 BOOK I WAITING BY-WAYS ON SERVICE SECTION A.--ON THE WAY CHAPTER I TRANSPORT