I - THE
START Joining Up---The
Personnel---Folkestone---Ostende ---Journey to Antwerp---Welcome.
II -
ANTWERP The Grammar School---Settling
In---The Rush of Wounded---Kind Neighbours---Hard Work---Malines---The
Fortifications---Winston Churchill---Rumours---"Ragtime"---The
Cafés.
III - THE
SIEGE Fall of Walaem---The Water
Supply---The Last Boat---Twenty-Four Hours' Notice---Midnight---Removal---In the
Cellars---Next Morning---The Faithful Cook---The Tommies---The Gas
Fails---London Buses---The First Convoy---Card-Houses---Pet Dogs
---"Bombe"---Howitzers.
IV - THE RETREAT More
Buses---Packing in the Patients---The Passengers---Down the Valley of
Flames---The Wait at the Bridge---The Highway of Sorrow---St. Nicolas ---The
Warning---The Track in the Dunes---The Constant
Question---Agony---Death---Anxiety---The B. E. F.
V - GHENT Arrival---Disposal of Patients---The Search---Found!
---Breakfast.
VI -
BRUGES More B. E. F---Hope and
Activity---The Joy---Ride ---The Croix-Rouge---Two A. M.---Flight---Philip
Gibbs.
VII -
OSTEND A Cold Reception---At Work
Again---The Patients ---La Plage Hotel---Responsibility.
VIII - THE EVACUATION
Tuesday Night---Midnight Visitors---Halt, Lame and
Blind---The Garde Civique---Fugitives---The Warning---Commandeering
Steamers---The Man Who Never Came---Good-bye Bombe---Panic---Tragedy---The
Transport---Old Friends---The Ambulance Train---Dover---London Again---The
Dispersal---Good-bye.
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PART II IX - FURNES The Telegram---St. Malo---A Lively Reception------L'Ecole
Episcopale---The New Staff---Our Orderlies---The Old-World Town---Seeing
Life---The Munro Ambulance Corps---Our Chef---The Kitchen ---The
Dining-Hall---The Menu---Darkness---The Rush---Miss McNaughton---Furnes
Station---The Soup-Kitchen---The Midnight Ambulance-Train---A Sabbath Day's
Journey---The Versatile Parson---The Rush---The Battle of the
Yser---Taubes---Flight! ---Poperinghe---The British---The Cuirassiers---The
Convent Refuge---French Troops---The Horrors of War.
X - FIRING THE
"SOIXANTE---QUINZE" From
the Ends of the Earth---Two Brave Englishmen---The French 75---The Trench
Dressing-Station---The Belgian Soldier------Homeless---Bereaved---Desolate---The
Suspense That Kills---The Operation Theatre---At Work and Play---The Barber's
Shop---The Sitting Room.
XI - CHRISTMAS Visit to
Dunkerque---Xmas Shopping---Hotter and Hotter---Optimist v.
Pessimist---Christmas Trees---The Christmas Sacrament---The Huns' Christmas
Cards---Hide and Seek---Mistletoe---An Interruption to the Christmas Feast---The
Aftermath---Christmas Night---The Orphans' Party.
XII - THE BOMBARDMENT
In the Cellars Again---The Underground Theatre---The Shell
That Arrived---An Unhealthy Spot---The Shell That Killed---Flight---The
Widow---The Stowaway.
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PART III XIII - HOOGESTADT
The Alms---House---The Attic---Bedroom---Mud---The
Farmyard---A Patriotic Chef---Four Heroes, Joseph, Eugene, Ernst Handschutter,
Jean Lassoux, V. C., Hero and Poet---Winter Passes---Daffodils---Spring.
XIV - THE SECOND BATTLE OF
YPRES April, 1915---Albert, the
Orderly---The Spring Offensive---Hospital, a Shambles---Theatre, a Slaughter
House---The Stretchers---Gas Shells---Understaffed---Over-Worked---Belgian
Surgeons.
XV - A
MILITARY HOSPITAL The Huts---The X-Ray
Department---Madame Curie---Summer Heat---The
Tent---Air---Planes---Respirators---Our Garden---The Band---Entertainments---The
Captive Balloon---The Barn Theatre ---Horse-Riding---The Premier
Guides---Bray---Dune ---A Joy---Ride---The Picture-Gallery---Garden
Banquets---The Blue Cross---More Riding---Out of Bounds---The Officers'
Ward---Moonlight Meals---The Street That Is Called Straight---The Crosses in the
Harvest---Field---Visits from the King and Queen---The Canadians---The
General---The General's Room---General Joffre---King Albert---The Victoria
Cross---Blackberrying in Flanders---A Country War Picture---The Orchestra---The
Great Warrior---The Curtain Drops.