Fatigue parties were working every night to keep the duck-board paths in repair, as shells were continuously hitting them, and every hit meant a few duck-boards smashed to splinters. The dump where new supplies of duck-boards were kept was five miles from the front line, and if new ones were required it meant a five-mile hike with a duck-board on our shoulders, and a five-mile hike back. We lost thirty men out of a fatigue party one night by shell-fire, and the casualties were so heavy that there was a continuous stream of motor ambulances along the roads in the rear. This was my fourth winter in the trenches, and the constant strain was beginning to tell on me, and I fell sick with pneumonia and developed trench feet. This time I was sent to England, and when I came out of the hospital I obtained convalescent leave to see my people, who were living in Winnipeg, Canada. My health not improving, I was discharged from the army in May, 1918, after having served fifteen years as a regular soldier and was three years and two months in France. * * * * * Transcriber's note: All original spellings, including names of people and places, have been retained. Hyphenation has been made consistent except that the use of both water-proof and waterproof has been retained. The illustration on page 147 was oriented vertically in the original but is oriented horizontally here. Minor punctuation errors corrected on pages 5, 110, and 119. The following typographical errors were corrected: Page 3, "Dardenelles" changed to "Dardanelles." (The "Dardanelles" Campaign) Page 8, "Shell-shock" changed to "Shell-shocked." (Shell-shocked and gassed at Chateau-Thierry.) Page 11, "EXERIENCE" changed to "EXPERIENCE." (MY EXPERIENCE AS A DISPATCHER) Page 80, "stay" changed to "say." (I might say that was in the month...) Page 88, "litle" changed to "little." (After having a little battle...) Page 103, "commision" changed to "commission." (...shoulder put out of commission.) Page 116, "starve" changed to "starved." (...none of them looked starved to death.) Page 146, "litle" changed to "little." (...tell of one or two little experiences...) Page 173, "strecher" changed to "stretcher." (...carrying the other end of the stretcher...)