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The Silent Division: New Zealanders at the Front, 1914-1919

Contents

page ix

Contents

Of How We Commenced to Go about the World and up and down in It. 1
Of what Befell in the Land of Egypt. 16
Of the Muster in the Haven of Mudros 32
Of the Battle of the Landing. 37
Of What Befell during the First Week. 50
Of a Field of Fair Flowers and the Crossing of the Daisy Patch. 60
Of the Holding of Walker's Ridge and of the Armistice. 66
Of the Holding of the Line. 73
Of the Domesticities of Anzac. 80
Of the Great Battle for the Crests of Sari Bair. 87
Of the Last Six Weeks and of the Evacuation 108
Of Sundry Reflections on the Campaign At Anzac. 119
Of the Rest Camp at Lemnos. 126
Of the Re-Organization in Egypt, The Formation of The N.Z. Division, and Good-bye to the Mounteds. 133
Of how the New Zealanders Came into the Land of France. 141
Of Armentieres, a Quiet Sector, and How It Became Hot. 146
Of the Battle of the Somme. And of How the New Zealanders Were a Tower of Strength on the Right Hand and on the Left. 160 page x
Of the Winter of 1916-17 When the Snow Lay Round About. 181
Of how the New Zealanders Came to Le Bizet-Ploegsteert and Hill 63 and Made Ready to Storm Messines. 188
Of the storm that burst upon Messines. 200
Of the aftermath of Battle. 214
Of how some of the Troops Went on London Leave and Others Trained for a Great Battle. 226
Of the Battlefield of Ypres, of Gravenstafel and Abraham heights, and of the Black Swamp Below Belle Vue Spur. 233
Of the Desolation beyond Ypres and the Winter of Discontent. 251
Of how the New Zealanders came to Mailly-Maillet and Barred the road to Amiens. 263
Of a Summer in Picardy that was Quieter than it Might Have been. 276
Of how the New Zealanders Commenced to Go Forward. 289
Of how the New Zealanders Swept Forward from Bapaume to Le Quesnoy. 298
Of How the New Zealanders Marched into Germany. 311
And of How They Came Home. 315
Appendix. 317