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"""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"""

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