Produced by Irma Spehar, Emmy and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net. (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/Canadian Libraries) ON THE KING'S SERVICE Inward Glimpses of Men at Arms BY THE REV. INNES LOGAN, M.A. CHAPLAIN TO THE FORCES SEPT. 1914-MAY 1916 HODDER AND STOUGHTON LONDON NEW YORK TORONTO MCMXVII TO MY WIFE This little book is written as a slight tribute of love and respect for those with whom the writer had, for over twenty months, the honour of association. UNITED FREE CHURCH OF SCOTLAND MANSE, BRAEMAR. CONTENTS CHAPTER I MUSTERING MEN PAGE I. THOSE GAUNT UNLOVELY BUILDINGS 3 II. WHY THE FIRST HUNDRED THOUSAND ENLISTED 7 III. UBIQUE 10 CHAPTER II A REINFORCEMENTS CAMP I. THE SUNNY VALLEY 19 II. THE MAN FROM SKYE 22 III. 'YOU CAN HEAR THEM NOW' 26 CHAPTER III A CLEARING STATION WHEN THERE IS 'NOTHING TO REPORT' I. FROM PARAPET TO BASE 33 II. 'DO YOU THINK THAT SORT OF THING MATTERS NOW?' 45 III. THE NAME OF JESUS 50 CHAPTER IV THE AFTERMATH OF LOOS I. THE FLAVOUR OF VICTORY 57 II. DOUBTS AND FEARS 63 III. OUR SHARE OF THE FIFTY THOUSAND 69 CHAPTER V DUMBARTON'S DRUMS I. BACK AGAIN! 79 II. THE FIRST SHOCK OF WAR 81 III. AT THE NOSE OF THE SALIENT 88 CHAPTER VI WINTER WARFARE I. THE SHELL AREA 95 II. 'I HATE WAR: THAT IS WHY I AM FIGHTING' 103 III. BILLETS AND CAMPS 106 CHAPTER VII HOW THE ROYALS HELD THE BLUFF: AN EPISODE OF TRENCH WARFARE I. WAITING 117 II. THE BLUFF 125 III. 'WE'VE KEEPIT UP THE REPUTATION O' THE AULD MOB, ONYWAY' 128 CHAPTER VIII THE HISTORIC TRIANGLE 135 MUSTERING MEN CHAPTER I MUSTERING MEN I _Those gaunt unlovely buildings_