The Escape of a Princess Pat: Being the Full Account of the Capture and Fifteen Month's Imprisonment of Corporal Edwards (Classic Reprint)

In order to remove all question of doubt in the mind of the reader it might perhaps be well to state here that the facts as given are the bona fide experiences of Corporal Edwards, Number 39, Number One Company, P. P. C. L. I., and as such were subjected to the closest scrutiny both by the author and others before it was deemed advisable to give the account to the public. In particular great pains were taken to do full justice to all enemy individuals who figure in the story.
'...and was met by querulous curses; I knelt by the side of the dying; I inquired of those wounded who still could walk, but find him I could not. It appears that a new and heavy moustache had helped to hide him from me. I was in great distress, but in the fullness of time and when our small circles had run their route, I discovered him in Toronto.
The word was that we were to go to Vlamertinghe, where the Zeppelins had bombed us in our huts. It lay well below threatened Ypres.
We of Number One Company passed Belle-waarde Lake, with its old dug-outs and its smells, and struck off across the fields, the better to avoid the heavy barrage fire which made all movement of troops difficult beyond words. We reached the railroad up and down which in quieter times the battalion had been wont to march to and fro to the Polygon Wood trenches.
The fire became heavier here and the going was rough so that what with the burden of packs which seemed to weigh a ton and all other things; we moved in a...'

Table of Contents

CONTENTS; ClIAPTEB; I Polygon Wood ; II 1'he Fourth of ~Iay ; PAGE; 14; 20; III Corporal Edwards Takes up the Tale 23; IV l1ajor Gault Comes Back 28; V The Eighth of May and the Last; Stand of the Princess Pats 33; VI Prisoners ; VII Pulling the Leg of a German General; VIII The Princess Patricia's Germ