Produced by David Clarke, Christine P. Travers and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/Canadian Libraries) [Transcriber's note: Obvious printer's errors have been corrected, all other inconsistencies are as in the original. Author's spelling has been maintained. Pages anchors have been added for the pages to which the author refers under the format [p.xx].] EXPERIENCES OF A DUG-OUT 1914-1918 _BY THE SAME AUTHOR._ THE LIFE OF LIEUTENANT-GENERAL SIR STANLEY MAUDE K.C.B., C.M.G., D.S.O. Illustrations and Maps. THE DARDANELLES Maps. TIRAH 1897 Maps. The last two of these volumes belong to Constable's "Campaigns and their Lessons" Series, of which Major-General Sir C. E. Callwell is Editor. [Illustration: AT THE "CROW'S NEST" (page 273) 1. Colonel Maslianikov 2. Major-General Callwell 3. Captain Wigram 4. Major-General Savitzky 5. Baron Meyendorff] EXPERIENCES OF A DUG-OUT 1914-1918 BY MAJOR-GENERAL SIR C. E. CALLWELL, K.C.B. WITH A FRONTISPIECE LONDON: CONSTABLE & COMPANY LIMITED 1920 NOTE Some passages in this Volume have already appeared in _Blackwood's Magazine_. The Author has to express his acknowledgements to the Editor for permission to reproduce them. Had Lord Fisher's death occurred before the proofs were finally passed for press, certain references to that great servant of the State would have been somewhat modified. CONTENTS CHAPTER I Page THE OUTBREAK OF WAR....................................... 1