On the right of the British line

Name: On the right of the British line
Author: Nobbs, Gilbert

Nobbs, Gilbert

World War, 1914-1918 -- Personal narratives, British

Produced by Jeannie Howse and The Online Distributed
Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was
produced from images generously made available by The
Internet Archive/American Libraries.)

       *       *       *       *       *

    +-----------------------------------------------------------+
    | Transcriber's Note:                                       |
    |                                                           |
    | Inconsistent hyphenation in the original document has     |
    | been preserved.                                           |
    |                                                           |
    | Obvious typographical errors have been corrected. For     |
    | a complete list, please see the end of this document.     |
    |                                                           |
    +-----------------------------------------------------------+

       *       *       *       *       *

    ON THE RIGHT
    OF THE BRITISH LINE

    [Illustration: Captain Gilbert Nobbs.
    _From a photograph by Aylett._]

    ON THE RIGHT
    OF THE BRITISH LINE

    BY
    CAPTAIN GILBERT NOBBS
    (LATE L.R.B.)

    NEW YORK
    CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS
    1917

    COPYRIGHT, 1917, BY
    CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS

    Published September, 1917

                  BESIDES THE MAN WHO FIGHTS
              THERE IS THE WOMAN WHO WAITS, AND
           IN HUMBLE TRIBUTE TO HER SILENT HEROISM
                     I DEDICATE THIS BOOK

PREFACE

This is my first book. It is also my last. But I have a record to make
and a duty to perform. I was five weeks on the firing line; four weeks
mourned as dead; and three months a prisoner of war.

I have attempted to make a true record of all that happened. The names
alone are fictitious (all except that of Saniez), for those days were
too full of stirring events which will long live in my memory to need
the aid of fiction. If I have dwelt at some length upon my experience
in Germany, it is with the hope that the information may be of
interest to those who have relatives and friends still in the hands of
the enemy and burn to know the truth.

I do not deplore the loss of my sight, for I can say in all sincerity
that I was never happier in my life than I am to-day.

                                                             G.N.

CONTENTS

  CHAPTER                                                         PAGE

      I. FOVANT                                                      1
         ORDERLY ROOM. OFF TO THE FRONT.

     II. THE SILENT HEROES                                           6
         THE WOMAN WHO WAITS--AND SUFFERS IN SILENCE.

    III. DEPARTURE FOR THE FRONT                                     9
         WATERLOO STATION. LUNCHEON ARGUMENTS. THE BAGGAGE
         PROBLEM.

     IV. CROSSING THE CHANNEL                                       15
         THE DOCK PORTER. A WHIFF OF BOND STREET.

Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.

On the right of the British line

No reviews yet