"Very insightful on the fate of the Australian contingents during the war. Their personalities, interactions, and friendships are described under the most stressful of conditions." (Mike)
Knyvett spent much of his active service as Intelligence Officer, 15th Bn. Australian Imperial Force. Seriously wounded at Gommecourt in November 1916, the day before he was due to transfer into the Royal Flying Corps, Capt. Knyvett was invited to deliver war lectures in America, and died in New York in 1918 aged 31. (University of Oxford)
CONTENTS
An Introduction Mainly About Scouts
PART I: "THE CALL TO ARMS"
I. The Call Reaches Some Far-Out Australians
II. An All-British Ship
III. Human Snowballs
IV. Training-Camp Life
V. Concentrated for Embarkation
VI. Many Weeks at Sea
PART II: EGYPT
VII. The Land of Sand and Sweat
VIII. Heliopolis
IX. The Desert
X. Picketing in Cairo
XI. "Nipper"
PART III: GALLIPOLI
XII. The Adventure of Youth
XIII. The Landing That Could Not Succeed-But Did
XIV. Holding On and Nibbling
XV. The Evacuation
XVI. "Ships That Pass..."
PART IV: THE WESTERN FRONT
XVII. Ferry Post and the Suez Canal Defenses
XVIII. First Days in France
XIX. The Battle of Fleurbaix
XX. Days and Nights of Strafe
XXI. The Village of Sleep
XXII. The Somme
XXIII. The Army's Pair of Eyes
XXIV. Nights in No Man's Land
XXV. Spy-Hunting
XXVI. Bapaume and "a Blighty"
PART V: HOSPITAL LIFE
XXVII. In France
XXVIII. In London
XXIX. The Hospital-Ship
XXX. In Australia
XXXI. Using an Irishman's Nerve
PART VI: MEDITATIONS IN THE TRENCHES
XXXII. The Right Infantry Weapons
XXXIII. The Forcing-House of Bestiality
XXXIV. The Psychology of Fear
XXXV. The Splendor of the Present Opportunity
XXXVI. Not a Fight for "Race" but for "Right"
XXXVII. "Keeping Faith with the Dead"
Poem, "But a Short Time to Live"
