# By-ways on Service: Notes from an Australian Journal

Author: Dinning, Hector, 1887-1941

Genre: Category: Biographies

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/63006

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=By-ways+on+Service%3A+Notes+from+an+Australian+Journal+Dinning&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

There is something high-sounding in the name Australian Imperial Expeditionary Force. The expedition with which our troop-ship cast loose justified, so far, our part in that name. The false alarms relating to the date of embarkation, raised whilst we were still in camp, had bred in us a kind of scepticism as to all such pronouncements. When it was told that we would go aboard on Tuesday, most of us emitted a sarcastic "te-hee!" And it was not until on Monday morning our black kit-bags were piled meaningly on the parade ground for transport that we began to rein-in our humour and visualise the method of voyaging and believe there must have been some fragment of truth in what we called the...

## Chapters

- [CHAPTER II](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/by-ways-on-service-notes-from-an-australian-journal-63006/chapters/11/index.md)
- [CHAPTER IV](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/by-ways-on-service-notes-from-an-australian-journal-63006/chapters/20/index.md)
- [CHAPTER V](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/by-ways-on-service-notes-from-an-australian-journal-63006/chapters/31/index.md)
- [CHAPTER III](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/by-ways-on-service-notes-from-an-australian-journal-63006/chapters/29/index.md)
- [CHAPTER I](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/by-ways-on-service-notes-from-an-australian-journal-63006/chapters/10/index.md)
- [CHAPTER II](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/by-ways-on-service-notes-from-an-australian-journal-63006/chapters/6/index.md)
- [CHAPTER III](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/by-ways-on-service-notes-from-an-australian-journal-63006/chapters/19/index.md)
- [CHAPTER III](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/by-ways-on-service-notes-from-an-australian-journal-63006/chapters/12/index.md)
- [CHAPTER I](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/by-ways-on-service-notes-from-an-australian-journal-63006/chapters/5/index.md)
- [CHAPTER II](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/by-ways-on-service-notes-from-an-australian-journal-63006/chapters/9/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VI](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/by-ways-on-service-notes-from-an-australian-journal-63006/chapters/32/index.md)
- [CHAPTER III](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/by-ways-on-service-notes-from-an-australian-journal-63006/chapters/35/index.md)
- [CHAPTER III](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/by-ways-on-service-notes-from-an-australian-journal-63006/chapters/7/index.md)
- [CHAPTER I](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/by-ways-on-service-notes-from-an-australian-journal-63006/chapters/8/index.md)
- [CHAPTER II](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/by-ways-on-service-notes-from-an-australian-journal-63006/chapters/34/index.md)
- [CHAPTER I](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/by-ways-on-service-notes-from-an-australian-journal-63006/chapters/33/index.md)
- [CHAPTER II](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/by-ways-on-service-notes-from-an-australian-journal-63006/chapters/18/index.md)
- [CHAPTER V](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/by-ways-on-service-notes-from-an-australian-journal-63006/chapters/21/index.md)
- [CHAPTER I](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/by-ways-on-service-notes-from-an-australian-journal-63006/chapters/27/index.md)
- [CHAPTER I](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/by-ways-on-service-notes-from-an-australian-journal-63006/chapters/17/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/by-ways-on-service-notes-from-an-australian-journal-63006/chapters/16/index.md)
- [CHAPTER I](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/by-ways-on-service-notes-from-an-australian-journal-63006/chapters/22/index.md)
- [CHAPTER II](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/by-ways-on-service-notes-from-an-australian-journal-63006/chapters/23/index.md)
- [CHAPTER IV](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/by-ways-on-service-notes-from-an-australian-journal-63006/chapters/30/index.md)
- [CHAPTER III](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/by-ways-on-service-notes-from-an-australian-journal-63006/chapters/24/index.md)
- [CHAPTER IV](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/by-ways-on-service-notes-from-an-australian-journal-63006/chapters/36/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VI](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/by-ways-on-service-notes-from-an-australian-journal-63006/chapters/15/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VI](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/by-ways-on-service-notes-from-an-australian-journal-63006/chapters/38/index.md)
- [CHAPTER II](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/by-ways-on-service-notes-from-an-australian-journal-63006/chapters/28/index.md)
- [CHAPTER IV](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/by-ways-on-service-notes-from-an-australian-journal-63006/chapters/25/index.md)
- [CHAPTER IV](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/by-ways-on-service-notes-from-an-australian-journal-63006/chapters/13/index.md)
- [CHAPTER V](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/by-ways-on-service-notes-from-an-australian-journal-63006/chapters/26/index.md)
- [CHAPTER V](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/by-ways-on-service-notes-from-an-australian-journal-63006/chapters/37/index.md)
- [CHAPTER V](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/by-ways-on-service-notes-from-an-australian-journal-63006/chapters/14/index.md)
- [BOOK IV.--FRANCE](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/by-ways-on-service-notes-from-an-australian-journal-63006/chapters/4/index.md)
- [BOOK I.--WAITING](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/by-ways-on-service-notes-from-an-australian-journal-63006/chapters/1/index.md)
- [BOOK II.--GALLIPOLI](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/by-ways-on-service-notes-from-an-australian-journal-63006/chapters/2/index.md)
- [BOOK III.--BACK TO EGYPT](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/by-ways-on-service-notes-from-an-australian-journal-63006/chapters/3/index.md)