We drifted down the beautiful waterway, past its forest of palms and its abundant willows and waving reeds. We reached Koweit Bay on the 4th and waited for rations and our new boats. On the 7th we were on our way to a new campaign. In nine months the Leicestershires were swinging through Beirut in the old, immemorial fashion, though foot-weary, and singing, whilst the people madly cheered and shouted. But it was not the old crowd. Fowke, Warren, Burrows--these three were gathered, two months after the battalion left Mesopotamia, at Kantara, when the German last offensive burst. They were sent at once to France. Fowke and Warren were badly wounded; a letter from Fowke informed me that he was hit 'while running away,' a jesting statement which one understands. Burrows, one of our keenest minds and a delightful man, a valued friend, did extraordinarily well--he was strangely fearless--but was killed as the French war was ending. From the 19th Brigade Haughton, Thornhill, General Peebles, had all gone long ago. Haughton was wounded in the Afghan War, and Thornhill died of illness. And now, as I write, G.A. is off to South America again, and J.Y. to Canada. I and my friends have seen our friends no more. FOOTNOTES: [31] The domestic ass. [32] Mimosa. [33] Concert party. [34] At Busra; the place of disembarkation. INDEX Adams, Captain, 80, 84 Adhaim, Shat-el, 54, 106, 146, 147 Ahwaz, 15 Akab, 145, 147 Al-Ajik, 80, 104, 108, 109, 124, 125 Ali Gharbi, 16 Amara, 15, 150 Anzac Wireless, 145, 148 Arabs, 26, 43 seq., 96, 100, 117, 122, 140, 143 Aujeh, 131 seq. Aujeh, (Palestine), 27 Babi, 22 Baghdad, 7, 9, 18 seq., 54, 107, 148 Baldry, Sec.-Lieut., 138 Bale, Sec.-Lieut., 114 Barrett, Major, 37, 91 Barron, Sec.-Lieut., 111 Batten, Sergeant, 46 Beit Aiessa, 17, 116 Beit Na'ama, 112 Beled, 21 seq., 48, 49, 112, 117, 147 Beirut, 151 Bhopals (9th), 64, 65, 118 Black Watch (2nd), 8, 9, 65, 70 Blewitt, Captain, 84 Bracken, Captain, 108 British Field Ambulance (7), 67 Brock, Lieut.-Col., 128 Brodie, Lieut., 60 Brooking, Maj.-Gen., 118 Buddus. _See_ ARABS Burn, Sec.-Lieut., 138 Burrows, Sec.-Lieut., 151 Busra, 112, 115, 143, 150 Cailley's Column, 54 Candler, Edmund, 7, 9 Carmel, 27 Casualty Clearing Station (19), 140 Cavalry, 18, 22, 30, 36, 39, 60, 61, 102, 132, 133, 137, 142 Clifton, Private, 93 Cobbe, Lieut.-Gen., 136 Connaught Rangers, 110 Copeman, Sec.-Lieut. Charles, 32, 44, 57, 58, 60, 80, 114 Copeman, Sec.-Lieut. J.Y., 60, 61, 63, 69, 101, 142, 151 Cotter, Colonel, 66 Creagh, Captain, 31, 87 Ctesiphon, 16, 117 Culverwell, Captain, 38 Daur, 120, 124 seq., 133, 144 Davies, Brig.-Gen., 22, 38, 107 Delamaine, Brig.-Gen., 15 Diggins, Captain, 10, 86 seq., 101, 131, 134, 139, 143, 146 Dobson, Private, 32 seq., 79, 84, 85, 92, 94, 96, 126 Dujail Canal, 44, 45, 51, 62, 70, 71, 110 Dujaileh, 16, 116 Erskine, Captain, 146 Ewing, Rev. Dr., 138 Ezra's Tomb, 113 Fane, Maj.-Gen., 113