TRANSCRIBER’S NOTE Italic text is denoted by _underscores_. Footnote anchors are denoted by [number], and the three footnotes have been placed at the end of the book. The tables in this book are best viewed using a monospace font. Some minor changes to the text are noted at the end of the book. Volume I of this book "THE FIRST BATTALION" can be found in Project Gutenberg at: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/64638 THE IRISH GUARDS IN THE GREAT WAR [Illustration: _ITINERARY of the SECOND BATTALION IRISH GUARDS_ _AUGUST 1915—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 II_ THE SECOND BATTALION AND APPENDICES 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 1915 LOOS AND THE FIRST AUTUMN 1 1916 SALIENT AND THE SOMME 49 1917 RANCOURT TO BOURLON WOOD 119 1918 ARRAS TO THE END 182 APPENDICES 217 INDEX 285 LIST OF MAPS Itinerary of the Second Battalion Irish Guards _Frontispiece_ Actions and Billets. Second Battalion _Facing page_ 48 The Ypres Salient. Second Battalion Actions ” 66 The Somme. Second Battalion _Between pages_ 126, 127 THE IRISH GUARDS IN THE GREAT WAR 1915 LOOS AND THE FIRST AUTUMN