Chapter I: Field and Trench Ordeals

“And a Few Marines” 1

Forward Lancers 10

An Unparalleled Hero 13

The Nemesis of Flame 18

He Jests at Scars 20

Epic of the Foreign Legion 27

“Doc” of the Fifth 32

Couldn’t Stop Them 35

One of Our Boys 41

Guthrie of the Kilties 44

Not So Unspeakable 47

The Medical Corps 48

Some Red Cross Weaklings 49

“Eh! Men, ’Twas Grand!” 55

One Survived 57

Tank Man Talks 58

The Garibaldi Code 62

The Bald Facts 65

O’Leary Stepped In 71

When the Yanks Went In 74

Humor and Heroism 79

England’s Indian Warriors 85

A Lively Introduction 92

A Valiant Gentleman 95

Where Denominations End 100

Buckeyes or Spearheads 103

Corporal Holmes’ Way 106

Not Dead But Fighting 109

When the Light Failed 114

The Cloud of Blacks 116

Hubbell Bagged ’Em 121

Was He a Coward? 123

Two Heroes of Hill 60 128

Colonel Freyberg, V. C. 131

One of the D. S. C. Men 133

Colored Troops Reach the Rhine 135

Good Old Potts 138

It Was Up to Bill 139

The Rendezvous 142

Staying to the End 146

Without the Glamour 147

Big Adam’s Hare Soup 156

A Blue Grass Canadian 158

Mistress “Razzle Dazzle” 165

The Painter Soldier 169