# At Ypres with Best-Dunkley

Author: Floyd, Thomas Hope, 1896-1973

Genre: World War I

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/17813

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=At+Ypres+with+Best-Dunkley+Floyd&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

I had been to France before--in 1916, during the Battle of the Somme--but not as an officer; in 1916 I was a private in the Royal Fusiliers, and I had received orders to return to "Blighty" in order to proceed to an officer cadet battalion at Gailes, in Ayrshire, before I had been able to see what a front-line trench was like. So this, then, was my first experience of war--my "baptism of fire." I had seen and heard those magnificent bombardments up the line in 1916, and had gazed with awestruck admiration upon the strange horizon far away from my tents at Boulogne and Etaples, wondering what it must be like to be amongst it all, and expecting to be amongst it all in the course of a day or...

## Chapters

- [Chapter 16](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/at-ypres-with-best-dunkley-17813/chapters/16/index.md)
- [Chapter 1](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/at-ypres-with-best-dunkley-17813/chapters/1/index.md)
- [Chapter 2](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/at-ypres-with-best-dunkley-17813/chapters/2/index.md)
- [Chapter 7](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/at-ypres-with-best-dunkley-17813/chapters/7/index.md)
- [Chapter 12](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/at-ypres-with-best-dunkley-17813/chapters/12/index.md)
- [Chapter 9](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/at-ypres-with-best-dunkley-17813/chapters/9/index.md)
- [Chapter 5](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/at-ypres-with-best-dunkley-17813/chapters/5/index.md)
- [Chapter 14](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/at-ypres-with-best-dunkley-17813/chapters/14/index.md)
- [Chapter 8](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/at-ypres-with-best-dunkley-17813/chapters/8/index.md)
- [Chapter 11](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/at-ypres-with-best-dunkley-17813/chapters/11/index.md)
- [Chapter 10](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/at-ypres-with-best-dunkley-17813/chapters/10/index.md)
- [Chapter 15](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/at-ypres-with-best-dunkley-17813/chapters/15/index.md)
- [Chapter 3](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/at-ypres-with-best-dunkley-17813/chapters/3/index.md)
- [Chapter 4](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/at-ypres-with-best-dunkley-17813/chapters/4/index.md)
- [Chapter 6](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/at-ypres-with-best-dunkley-17813/chapters/6/index.md)
- [Chapter 13](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/at-ypres-with-best-dunkley-17813/chapters/13/index.md)