FROM DARTMOUTH
TO THE DARDANELLES
SOLDIERS’ TALES OF THE
GREAT WAR
Each volume cr. 8vo, cloth.
3s. 6d. net.
| I. | WITH MY REGIMENT. By “PlatoonCommander.” |
| II. | DIXMUDE. The Epic of the FrenchMarines. Oct.-Nov. 1914. ByCharles le Goffic. Illustrated |
| III. | IN THE FIELD (1914-15). TheImpressions of an Officer of LightCavalry. |
| IV. | UNCENSORED LETTERS FROMTHE DARDANELLES. Notes ofa French Army Doctor. Illustrated |
| V. | PRISONER OF WAR. By AndréWarnod. Illustrated |
| VI. | “CONTEMPTIBLE.” By “Casualty.” |
| VII. | ON THE ANZAC TRAIL. By“Anzac.” |
| VIII. | IN GERMAN HANDS. By CharlesHennebois. |
London: WILLIAM HEINEMANN
21 Bedford Street, W.C.
FROM DARTMOUTH
TO THE DARDANELLES
A MIDSHIPMAN’S LOG
EDITED BY
HIS MOTHER
LONDON
WILLIAM HEINEMANN
First Published June 1916.
New Impressions July, September, October 1916.
London: William Heinemann, 1916.
FOREWORD
The responsibility for the publication of this booklies with me, and with me alone. I trust that thatgreat “Silent Service,” one of whose finest traditionsis to “do” and not to “talk,” will see in itno indiscretion.
To state that these pages make no claim toliterary merit seems almost superfluous, since theyare simply a boy’s story of ten months of the GreatWar as he saw it. In deference to the saidtradition the names of officers and ships concernedhave been suppressed—those of the midshipmenmentioned are all fictitious.
The story has been compiled from a narrativewritten by my son during a short spell of sick leavein December 1915. Considering that all hisdiaries were lost when his ship was sunk, it mayat least be considered a not inconsiderable feat of[vi]memory. Originally it was intended only forprivate circulation, but many who have read ithave urged me to put it into print; and I havedecided to do so in the hope that their predictionthat it would prove of interest to the