Produced by Geetu Melwani, Sigal Alon, Christine P. Travers and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net [Transcriber's note: Obvious printer's errors have been corrected. Hyphenation and accentuation have been standardised, all other inconsistencies are as in the original. The author's spelling has been maintained.] WAR LETTERS OF A PUBLIC-SCHOOL BOY [Illustration: Lieut. Paul Jones. (_From a Photograph by his Brother._)] WAR LETTERS OF A PUBLIC-SCHOOL BOY BY PAUL JONES Lieutenant of the Tank Corps Scholar-Elect of Balliol College, Oxford: Head of the Modern Side and Captain of Football, Dulwich College, 1914 WITH A MEMOIR BY HIS FATHER HARRY JONES _He was the very embodiment in himself of all that is best in the public-school spirit, the very incarnation of self-sacrifice and devotion._ A DULWICH MASTER. WITH EIGHT PLATES CASSELL AND COMPANY, LTD London, New York, Toronto and Melbourne 1918 CONTENTS Page Introductory 1 PART I. MEMOIR Chapter 1. Childhood 9 2. At Dulwich College 14 3. Football 28 4. Cricket 37 5. Editor of _The Alleynian_ 41 6. Public Schools and the War 47 7. Tastes and Hobbies 52 8. Music 59 9. Literature and Ethics 72 10. History and Politics 85 11. In the Army 98 12. Personal Characteristics 110 PART II. WAR LETTERS At a Home Port 121 With the 9th Cavalry Brigade 131 With a Supply Column 186 In the Somme Battlefield 202 With the 2nd Cavalry Brigade 212 With the Tank Corps 229 PART III Epilogue 257 INDEX 277 LIST OF PLATES H. P. M. Jones as 2nd Lieut. A.S.C. _Frontispiece_