  A TRIBUTE TO THE SOLDIERS OF FRANCE CHAPTER I THE SEARCH FOR MY COMPANY CHAPTER II THE QUARTERMASTER'S BILLETS CHAPTER IV THE SONG OF THE MACHINE GUN CHAPTER V A RECONNAISSANCE IN THE FOG CHAPTER VI OUR FIRST ENGAGEMENT CHAPTER X AN ORDINARY FATIGUE PARTY CHAPTER XII "WE HAVE TAKEN A PICKET POST" CHAPTER XIV THE SONGS OF THE HOMELAND COVERED WITH MUD AND GLORY “He’s Hit,” Sergeant Lace Cries suddenly. And indeed He Is Hit. COVERED WITH MUD A Machine Gun Company in Action (“Ma Mitrailleuse”) BY Sergeant-Major, Territorial Hussars, French Army; Intelligence With a Preface by Maurice BarrÈs Translated by Edwin Gile Rich INCLUDING BY BOSTON Copyright, 1918 THE UNIVERSITY PRESS, CAMBRIDGE, U. S. A. To the Memory of My Comrades of the second company of machine guns of the ... first Colonials who fell at the battle of the Somme in July, 1916, and of the Aisne in April, 1917; To Lieutenants Maisonnave and Dupouy in remembrance of the hours of fine, sincere comradeship we lived together; To Denys Maurin the quartermaster-sergeant, wounded heroically before Soissons, in testimony of a sincere friendship which was born under shell-fire, which grew amid the horrors of grim madness, and which was firmly fixed through sharing common hopes and common joys; I dedicate these simple pages |
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