Produced by Robert Cicconetti, Jeannie Howse and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/Canadian Libraries) * * * * * +--------------------------------------------------------------+ | Transcriber's Note: | | | | Inconsistent hyphenation in the original document has been | | preserved. | | | | Each chapter is preceded by a blank page, a chapter title | | page and another blank page. | | | | A number of obvious typographical errors have been corrected | | in this text. For a complete list, please see the end of | | this document. | | | +--------------------------------------------------------------+ * * * * * WITH THE IMMORTAL SEVENTH DIVISION By the Rev. E.J. KENNEDY Chaplain Major to The Expeditionary Force. With a Preface by the Right Reverend the LORD BISHOP OF WINCHESTER HODDER AND STOUGHTON LONDON NEW YORK TORONTO MCMXVI TO MY WIFE AND HELP-MATE OF MANY YEARS. PREFACE This little record bears the impress of the character of its writer--simple, manly, open-hearted towards man, and devout towards God. I have read a great part of it with keen interest. Written without strain, from fresh personal experience, and with great sympathy for the officers and men of our Army, it gives a very lively picture of a chaplain's work at the Front, and the scenes and conditions under which it is done. Mr. Kennedy's commanding stature, and fine physical manhood, gave him advantages which his fine character and genial nature used, by God's grace, to the best effect. Having known him, and admired him from the time when I admitted him to Priest's Orders in South London, down to the day when at my request he addressed our Diocesan Conference upon the challenge given to the Church by the war, and the claims and needs of the men of our Army returning from the Front,--a subject on which he glowed with eagerness,--it is a happiness to me to bespeak for his words an attention which will certainly be its own reward.