Note: Project Gutenberg also has an HTML version of this file which includes the original maps. See 64638-h.htm or 64638-h.zip: (http://www.gutenberg.org/files/64638/64638-h/64638-h.htm) or (http://www.gutenberg.org/files/64638/64638-h.zip) Images of the original pages are available through Internet Archive. See https://archive.org/details/irishguardsofgre01rudy Transcriber’s note: Text enclosed by underscores is in italics (_italics_). Footnote anchors are denoted by [number], and the footnotes have been placed at the end of the book. Some minor changes to the text are noted at the end of the book. THE IRISH GUARDS IN THE GREAT WAR * * * * * * BOOKS BY RUDYARD KIPLING ACTIONS AND REACTIONS BRUSHWOOD BOY, THE CAPTAINS COURAGEOUS COLLECTED VERSE DAY’S WORK, THE DEPARTMENTAL DITTIES AND BALLADS AND BARRACK-ROOM BALLADS DIVERSITY OF CREATURES, A EYES OF ASIA, THE FEET OF THE YOUNG MEN, THE FIVE NATIONS, THE FRANCE AT WAR FRINGES OF THE FLEET FROM SEA TO SEA HISTORY OF ENGLAND, A IRISH GUARDS IN THE GREAT WAR, THE JUNGLE BOOK, THE JUNGLE BOOK, SECOND JUST SO SONG BOOK JUST SO STORIES KIM KIPLING ANTHOLOGY, PROSE AND VERSE KIPLING STORIES AND POEMS EVERY CHILD SHOULD KNOW KIPLING BIRTHDAY BOOK, THE LETTERS OF TRAVEL LIFE’S HANDICAP: BEING STORIES OF MINE OWN PEOPLE LIGHT THAT FAILED, THE MANY INVENTIONS NAULAHKA, THE (With Wolcott Balestier) PLAIN TALES FROM THE HILLS PUCK OF POOK’S HILL REWARDS AND FAIRIES RUDYARD KIPLING’S VERSE: Inclusive Edition, 1885-1918 SEA WARFARE SEVEN SEAS, THE SOLDIER STORIES SOLDIERS THREE, THE STORY OF THE GADSBYS, AND IN BLACK AND WHITE SONG OF THE ENGLISH, A SONGS FROM BOOKS STALKY & CO. THEY TRAFFICS AND DISCOVERIES UNDER THE DEODARS, THE PHANTOM ’RICKSHAW, AND WEE WILLIE WINKIE WITH THE NIGHT MAIL YEARS BETWEEN, THE * * * * * * [Illustration: _ITINERARY of the FIRST BATTALION IRISH GUARDS_ _AUGUST 1914-DECEMBER 1918._ _Emery Walker Ltd. del. et sc._] PRINTED IN GREAT BRITAIN BY EMERY WALKER LTD., LONDON THE IRISH GUARDS IN THE GREAT WAR Edited and Compiled from Their Diaries and Papers by RUDYARD KIPLING [Illustration: (decorative diamond icon)] VOLUME I The First Battalion Garden City New York Doubleday, Page & Company 1923 [Illustration: (personal colophon of Rudyard Kipling)] Copyright, 1923, by Rudyard Kipling All Rights Reserved, Including That of Translation into Foreign Languages, Including the Scandinavian Printed in the United States at The Country Life Press, Garden City, N. Y. First Edition CONTENTS PAGE INTRODUCTION ix