TAILIEUCHUNG - The First Hundred Thousand

Captain Beith, who was born in 1876 and therefore narrowly came within the age limit for military service, enlisted at the first outbreak of hostilities in the summer of 1914, and was made a sub-lieutenant in the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders. After training throughout the fall and winter at Aldershot, he accompanied his regiment to the front in April, and, as his narrative discloses, immediately saw some very active service and rapidly rose to the rank of captain. In the offensive of September, Captain Beith's division was badly cut up and seriously reduced in numbers. He has lately been transferred to a machine-gun division, and. | The First Hundred Thousand 1 The First Hundred Thousand The Project Gutenberg eBook The First Hundred Thousand by Ian Hay This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at Title The First Hundred Thousand Author Ian Hay Release Date July 10 2004 eBook 12877 Language English Character set encoding ISO-8859-1 START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE FIRST HUNDRED THOUSAND E-text prepared by the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team THE FIRST HUNDRED THOUSAND Being the Unofficial Chronicle of a Unit of K 1 BY The First Hundred Thousand 2 IAN HAY Illustration CAPTAIN IAN HAY BEITH By Ian Hay PIP A ROMANCE OF YOUTH. GETTING TOGETHER. THE FIRST HUNDRED THOUSAND. SCALLY THE STORY OF A PERFECT GENTLEMAN. With Frontispiece. A KNIGHT ON WHEELS. HAPPY-GO-LUCKY. Illustrated by Charles E. Brock. A SAFETY MaTcH. With frontispiece. A MAN S MAN. With frontispiece. THE RIGHT STUFF. With frontispiece. TO MY WIFE PUBLISHERS NOTE The Junior Sub who writes the following account of the experiences of some of the first hundred thousand of Kitchener s army is as the title-page of the volume now reveals Ian Hay Beith author of those deservedly popular novels _The Right Stuff A Man s Man A Safety Match and Happy-Go-Lucky_. Captain Beith who was born in 1876 and therefore narrowly came within the age limit for military service enlisted at the first outbreak of hostilities in the summer of 1914 and was made a sub-lieutenant in the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders. After training throughout the fall and winter at Aldershot he accompanied his regiment to the front in April and as his narrative discloses immediately saw some very active service and rapidly rose to the rank of captain. In the offensive of September Captain Beith s division was badly cut up and seriously reduced in .

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