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Bullets & Billets

Bullets & Billets

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Bullets & Billets

 

By Bruce Bairnsfather

 

1916

 

 

TO MY OLD PALS,
"BILL," "BERT," AND "ALF,"
WHO HAVE SAT IN THE MUD WITH ME

 

 

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CONTENTS

CHAPTER I  Landing at Havre—Tortoni's—Follow the tram lines—Orders
  for the Front.
CHAPTER II  Tortuous travelling—Clippers and tablets—Dumped at a
  siding—I join my Battalion.
CHAPTER III  Those Plugstreet trenches—Mud and rain—Flooded out—A
  hopeless dawn.
CHAPTER IV  More mud—Rain and bullets—A bit of cake—"Wind up"—Night
  rounds.
CHAPTER V  My man Friday—"Chuck us the biscuits"—Relieved—Billets.
CHAPTER VI  The Transport Farm—Fleeced by the Flemish—Riding—Nearing
  Christmas.
CHAPTER VII  A projected attack—-Digging a sap—An 'ell of a night—The
  attack—Puncturing Prussians.
CHAPTER VIII  Christmas Eve—A lull in hate—Briton cum Boche.
CHAPTER IX  Souvenirs—A ride to Nieppe—Tea at H.Q.—Trenches once more.
CHAPTER X  My partial escape from the mud—The deserted village—My
  "cottage."
CHAPTER XI  Stocktaking—Fortifying—Nebulous Fragments.
CHAPTER XII  A brain wave—Making a "funk hole"—Plugstreet Wood—Sniping.
CHAPTER XIII  Robinson Crusoe—That turbulent table.
CHAPTER XIV  The Amphibians—Fed-up, but determined—The gun parapet.
CHAPTER XV  Arrival of the "Johnsons"—"Where did that one go?"—The
  First Fragment dispatched—The exodus—Where?
CHAPTER XVI  New trenches—The night inspection—Letter from the
  Bystander.
CHAPTER XVII  Wulverghem—The Douve—Corduroy boards—Back at our farm.
CHAPTER XVIII  The painter and decorator—Fragments forming—Night on the
  mud prairie.
CHAPTER XIX  Visions of leave—Dick Turpin—Leave!
CHAPTER XX  That Leave train—My old pal—London and home—The call of
  the wild.
CHAPTER XXI  Back from leave—That "blinkin' moon"—Johnson 'oles—Tommy
  and "frightfulness"—Exploring expedition.
CHAPTER XXII  A daylight stalk—The disused trench—"Did they see me?"—A
  good sniping position.
CHAPTER XXIII  Our moated farm—Wulverghem—The Curé's house—A shattered
  Church—More "heavies"—A farm on fire.
CHAPTER XXIV  That ration fatigue—Sketches in request—Bailleul—Baths and
  lunatics—How to conduct a war.
CHAPTER XXV  Getting stale—Longing for change—We leave the Douve—On the
  march—Spotted fever—Ten days' rest.
CHAPTER XXVI  A pleasant change—Suzette, Berthe and Marthe—"La jeune
  fille farouche"—André.
CHAPTER XXVII  Getting fit—Caricaturing the Curé—"Dirty work ahead"—A
  projected attack—Unlooked-for orders.

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