E-text prepared by David Clarke, gvb, and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team (http://www.pgdp.net/) from page images generously made available by Internet Archive/Canadian Libraries (http://www.archive.org/details/toronto) Note: Images of the original pages are available through Internet Archive/Canadian Libraries. See http://www.archive.org/details/wartwocontinents00macnuoft Transcriber's note: The unique headers on the odd numbered pages in the original book have been reproduced with [Page Heading: ] tags. They have been inserted in front of the paragraph or letter to which the heading refers. There are several inconsistencies in spelling and punctuation in the original. A few corrections have been made for obvious typographical errors; these, as well as some doubtful spellings of names, have been marked individually in the text. All changes made by the transcriber are enumerated in braces, for example {1}; details of corrections and comments are listed at the end of the text. Text in italics in the original is shown between _underlines_. MY WAR EXPERIENCES IN TWO CONTINENTS by S. MACNAUGHTAN Edited by Her Niece, Mrs. Lionel Salmon (Betty Keays-Young) With a Portrait [Illustration: Camera Portrait by E. O. Hoppe.] London John Murray, Albemarle Street, W. 1919 THIS BOOK IS DEDICATED, IN ACCORDANCE WITH A WISH EXPRESSED BY MISS MACNAUGHTAN BEFORE HER DEATH, TO THOSE WHO ARE FIGHTING AND THOSE WHO HAVE FALLEN, WITH ADMIRATION AND RESPECT, AND TO HER NEPHEWS, CAPTAIN LIONEL SALMON, 1st Bn. the Welch Regt. CAPTAIN HELIER PERCIVAL, M.C., 9th Bn. the Welch Regt. CAPTAIN ALAN YOUNG, 2nd Bn. the Welch Regt. CAPTAIN COLIN MACNAUGHTAN, 2nd Dragoon Guards. LIEUTENANT RICHARD YOUNG, 9th Bn. the Welch Regt. CONTENTS PAGE PREFACE ix PART I BELGIUM CHAPTER I ANTWERP 1 CHAPTER II WITH DR. HECTOR MUNRO'S FLYING AMBULANCE CORPS 24 CHAPTER III AT FURNES RAILWAY-STATION 60 CHAPTER IV WORKING UNDER DIFFICULTIES 85 CHAPTER V THE SPRING OFFENSIVE 111 CHAPTER VI LAST DAYS IN FLANDERS 135 PART II AT HOME HOW THE MESSAGE WAS DELIVERED 159 PART III RUSSIA AND THE PERSIAN FRONT CHAPTER I PETROGRAD 179 CHAPTER II WAITING FOR WORK 204 CHAPTER III SOME IMPRESSIONS OF TIFLIS AND ARMENIA 219 CHAPTER IV ON THE PERSIAN FRONT 237