Produced by Sigal Alon, 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. -Variable spelling of hyphenated words has been made consistent. -Missing page numbers correspond to blank pages. -Punctuation conventions of the original have been retained. -Inconsistent spelling of place names has been retained.] [Illustration: Frontispiece] The Great War as I Saw It [Illustration: Frederick George Scott.] The Great War as I Saw It by Canon Frederick George Scott, C.M.G., D.S.O. _Late Senior Chaplain_ _First Canadian Division, C.E.F._ Author of "Later Canadian Poems," and "Hymn of the Empire." F. D. GOODCHILD COMPANY Publishers Toronto Copyright, Canada, 1922 by Frederick George Scott CONTENTS (p. 005) PAGE CHAPTER I. How I got into the War--July to September, 1914 15 CHAPTER II. The Voyage to England--September 29th to October 18th, 1914 25 CHAPTER III. On Salisbury Plain--October 18th, 1914 to January 1st, 1915 30 CHAPTER IV. Off to France--January to March, 1915 34 CHAPTER V. Before the Storm--March and April, 1915 48 CHAPTER VI. The Second Battle of Ypres--April 22nd, 1915 55 CHAPTER VII. Festubert and Givenchy--May and June, 1915 74 CHAPTER VIII. A Lull in Operations--Ploegsteert, July to December, 1915 93 CHAPTER IX. Our First Christmas in France 118 CHAPTER X. Spring, 1916 122 CHAPTER XI. The Attack on Mount Sorrel--Summer, 1916 128 CHAPTER XII. The Battle of the Somme--Autumn, 1916 134 CHAPTER XIII. Our Home at Camblain l'Abbe--November, 1916 149 CHAPTER XIV. My Search is Rewarded 154 CHAPTER XV. A Time of Preparation--Christmas, 1916 to April, 1917 159 CHAPTER XVI. The Capture of Vimy Ridge--April 9th, 1917 167 CHAPTER XVII. A Month on the Ridge--April and May, 1917 173 CHAPTER XVIII. (p. 006) A Well-earned Rest--May and June, 1917 179 CHAPTER XIX. Paris Leave--June, 1917 186