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With Our Fighting Men The story of their faith, courage, endurance in the Great War
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WITH OUR FIGHTING MEN
With
Our Fighting Men
THE STORY OF
THEIR FAITH, COURAGE, ENDURANCE
IN THE GREAT WAR
BY
WILLIAM E. SELLERS
Author of "From Aldershot to Pretoria"
WITH COLOURED AND OTHER
ILLUSTRATIONS FROM DRAWINGS AND FROM
PHOTOGRAPHS
London
THE RELIGIOUS TRACT SOCIETY
4 Bouverie Street & 65 St. Paul's Churchyard
PREFACEToC
In sending forth this book I wish to acknowledge the kindness and co-operation of many friends, new and old, who have made my task easy and my story, so far as possible, complete.
In the first place, I express my hearty thanks to the Rt. Rev. Bishop Taylor-Smith, D.D. (the Chaplain General); Revs. E.G.F. Macpherson, M.A., and F.G. Tuckey (senior Church of England chaplains at the front); Rev. J.A. M'Clymont, D.D., V.D. (Convener of the Church of Scotland General Assembly's Committee on Army and Navy chaplains); Rev. J.H. Bateson (Secretary of the Wesleyan Methodist Army and Navy Board); Rev. J.H. Shakespeare, M.A. (Secretary of the Baptist Union of Great Britain and Ireland, and of the Free Church Army and Navy Board); Rev. E.L. Watson (senior Free Church chaplain at the front); General Booth and Brigadier Carpenter (of the Salvation Army); Mr. A.K. Yapp (General Secretary of the Young Men's Christian Association); and several others.
In the second place, I acknowledge with gratitude the help I have received from reports in the Methodist Recorder, Methodist Times, United Free Church of Scotland Record, Church Pennant, Baptist Times and Freeman, Guardian, Guy's Hospital Gazette, War Cry, and many other papers, to the respective editors of which I tender my thanks.
I also wish to express my cordial thanks to my colleague, the Rev. E.G. Loosley, B.D., for the painstaking care with which he has revised the proofs of my book.
I hope and pray that the story recorded in these pages may quicken interest in Christian work among soldiers and sailors, and so help to extend the kingdom of Christ.
W.E.S.
Rochdale,
April 1915.
CONTENTS
| CHAPTER | PAGE | |
| PREFACE | iii | |
| LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS | vii | |
| INTRODUCTION | ix | |
| I. | AT THE HOME BASE | 1 |
| II. | EARLY DAYS AT THE FRONT | 26 |
| III. | AT THE FIGHTING BASE | 44 |
| IV. | THE MARNE, THE AISNE, YPRES | 63 |
| V. | THOMAS ATKINS IN THE TRENCHES | 79 |
| VI. | CHRISTMAS AT THE FRONT | 100 |
| VII. | CHRISTIAN HEROISM | 116 |
| VIII. | AT THE SIGN OF THE RED CROSS | 135 |
| IX. | WITH THE GRAND FLEET | 153 |
| X. | CHAPLAINS DESCRIBE THEIR WORK | 171 |
| XI. | HEADS OF ARMY WORK AT HOME TELL THE STORY OF WORK |