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CHAPTER I. CHAPTER II. CHAPTER III. CHAPTER IV. CHAPTER V. CHAPTER VI. CHAPTER VII. CHAPTER VIII. CHAPTER IX. CHAPTER X. CHAPTER XI. CHAPTER XII. CHAPTER XIII. CHAPTER XIV. CHAPTER XV. CHAPTER I. CHAPTER II. CHAPTER III CHAPTER IV. CHAPTER V. CHAPTER VI. CHAPTER VII. CHAPTER VIII. 1 CHAPTER IX. CHAPTER X. CHAPTER XI CHAPTER XII. CHAPTER XIII. CHAPTER XIV. CHAPTER XV. the Fringe of the Great Fight, by George G. Nasmith Project Gutenberg's On the Fringe of the Great Fight, by George G. Nasmith This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org Title: On the Fringe of the Great Fight Author: George G. Nasmith Release Date: November 20, 2006 [EBook #19876] Language: English Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK ON THE FRINGE OF THE GREAT FIGHT *** Produced by Sigal Alon, 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, and unusual and inconsistent | | spelling in the original document has been preserved. | | There are many punctuation confusions and errors in | | this book. | | | | There are many obvious typographical errors in this | | book, these have been corrected in this text. For a | | complete list, please see the end of this document. | | | + + * * * * * ON THE FRINGE OF THE GREAT FIGHT [Illustration: COLONEL GEORGE G. NASMITH, C.M.G.] ON THE FRINGE OF THE GREAT FIGHT By the Fringe of the Great Fight, by George G. Nasmith 2 COLONEL GEORGE G. NASMITH, C.M.G. McCLELLAND, GOODCHILD & STEWART PUBLISHERS :: :: :: TORONTO COPYRIGHT, CANADA, 1917 McCLELLAND, GOODCHILD & STEWART, LIMITED TORONTO PRINTED IN CANADA TO MY WAR BRIDE IN FLANDERS FIELDS In Flanders fields the poppies grow, Between the crosses, row on row, That mark our place, and in the sky The larks still bravely singing fly, Scarce heard amid the guns below. We are the dead, short days ago We lived, felt dawn, saw sunsets glow, Loved and were loved, and now we lie In Flanders fields. Take up our quarrel with the foe. To you from failing hands we throw The torch: be yours to hold it high. If ye break faith with us who die We shall not sleep, though poppies blow In Flanders fields. JOHN MACCRAE, (Lt Col.) By permission of the author. CONTENTS PAGE PREFACE xi the Fringe of the Great Fight, by George G. Nasmith 3 CHAPTER I. ON THE ROAD TO A GREAT ADVENTURE 1 CHAPTER I. 4 CHAPTER II. ON SALISBURY PLAINS 11 CHAPTER II. 5 CHAPTER III. EARLY WAR DAYS IN LONDON 32 CHAPTER III. 6 CHAPTER IV. DAYS WHEN THINGS WENT WRONG 46 CHAPTER IV. 7 CHAPTER V. THE LOST CANADIAN LABORATORY 62 CHAPTER V. 8 CHAPTER VI. THE DAYS BEFORE YPRES 70 CHAPTER VI. 9 CHAPTER VII. THE SECOND BATTLE OF YPRES 83 CHAPTER VII. 10 [...]... talking of the war One heard the Russian and French national anthems very frequently, not only in the streets, but in the theatres and public performances, such as those in Queen's Hall The finest playing of any national anthem that I have ever listened to was the London Symphony Orchestra's rendering of The Russian National Anthem one Monday night with Safanoff conducting; it was sublime I had heard the. .. that the man who to our perspective was the one great man of vision would be given the opportunity to become the man of action It was when one reached the heart of things, the War Office, that one began to realize the undercurrents which were being set up in the national life as a result of the war In the court yard of the War Office, which was carefully guarded by policemen, were large numbers of women,... Rankin, saw the Germans launch their first gas attack near St Julien upon the section of the line held by the French colonial troops and the first Canadian division This book was written primarily for the purpose of recording this as well as some of the other experiences of the first Canadian division as seen from the unusual angle of a scientist, in the course of 18,000 miles of travel in the front line... the same number on the preceding day in the same hall by another orchestra and the difference was remarkable; the first one sounding like an amateur organization in comparison No orchestra ever impressed me as did the London Symphony Orchestra, with the possible exception of the Boston Symphony Orchestra To be in London, not sixty miles from the firing line, in a city firmly convinced of coming Zeppelin... the ground, and the upper ends supporting huge slabs of stone placed across them A few of the stones have fallen, and lie prone upon the ground Perhaps no relics in the world have caused more wonder and evoked more speculation in the lay and scientific mind than these curious stones standing in the middle of the plain, miles from any town Books have been written about them They are supposed to be of. .. advantageous at the moment The 90th Regiment "the little black devils" of Winnipeg was a very fine body of men indeed; they were drilled by the hour on the decks, and were given lectures They entertained themselves in their spare time by getting up boxing bouts and concerts The antics of a bear cub and a monkey, the battalion mascots, amused the men for many hours at a time One night the officers gave... victory in the neighborhood The natives have kept the figure ever since carved white on the hillside by the simple process of digging away the surface earth and sod, and leaving the underlying chalk exposed Stonehenge, situated in the middle of the plain, is one of the weirdest and most interesting sights of England It consists of two series of colossal stone columns arranged in circles with the lower... Imperceptibly the pier and the lights of the city receded and we steamed on down the mighty St Lawrence to our trysting place on the sea The second morning afterwards we woke to find ourselves riding quietly at anchor in the sunny harbour of Gaspé, with all the other transports anchored about us, together with four long grey gunboats, our escort upon the road to our great adventure The brilliant afternoon sun of. .. dying session of parliament was worth going to see; Bonar Law, Beresford, McKenna, and Winston Churchill spoke The latter made his defence of the Navy which was as famous and as reassuring to the country as Kitchener's statement in the house of Lords the day before had been in regard to the Army Mr Bonar Law was the smoothest of the speakers; Churchill gave one the impression of having much force of character,... times The authorities were much wiser than we knew CHAPTER II 30 Of course it rained on the morning of the day that the King came down to review the Division; at breakfast the rain hammered the tin roof of our mess room at Bustard Camp like so many hailstones and the outlook was most gloomy Later on it cleared, and when the guns boomed out the royal salute announcing the arrival of His Majesty, the . FIGHT [Illustration: COLONEL GEORGE G. NASMITH, C.M.G.] ON THE FRINGE OF THE GREAT FIGHT By the Fringe of the Great Fight, by George G. Nasmith 2 COLONEL GEORGE. XV. the Fringe of the Great Fight, by George G. Nasmith Project Gutenberg's On the Fringe of the Great Fight, by George G. Nasmith This eBook is for the