"Over There" with the Australians

"Very insightful on the fate of the Australian contingents during the war. Their personalities, interactions, and friendships are described under the most stressful of conditions." (Mike)

Knyvett spent much of his active service as Intelligence Officer, 15th Bn. Australian Imperial Force. Seriously wounded at Gommecourt in November 1916, the day before he was due to transfer into the Royal Flying Corps, Capt. Knyvett was invited to deliver war lectures in America, and died in New York in 1918 aged 31. (University of Oxford)



CONTENTS

An Introduction Mainly About Scouts

PART I: "THE CALL TO ARMS"

I. The Call Reaches Some Far-Out Australians

II. An All-British Ship

III. Human Snowballs

IV. Training-Camp Life

V. Concentrated for Embarkation

VI. Many Weeks at Sea

PART II: EGYPT

VII. The Land of Sand and Sweat

VIII. Heliopolis

IX. The Desert

X. Picketing in Cairo

XI. "Nipper"

PART III: GALLIPOLI

XII. The Adventure of Youth

XIII. The Landing That Could Not Succeed-But Did

XIV. Holding On and Nibbling

XV. The Evacuation

XVI. "Ships That Pass..."

PART IV: THE WESTERN FRONT

XVII. Ferry Post and the Suez Canal Defenses

XVIII. First Days in France

XIX. The Battle of Fleurbaix

XX. Days and Nights of Strafe

XXI. The Village of Sleep

XXII. The Somme

XXIII. The Army's Pair of Eyes

XXIV. Nights in No Man's Land

XXV. Spy-Hunting

XXVI. Bapaume and "a Blighty"

PART V: HOSPITAL LIFE

XXVII. In France

XXVIII. In London

XXIX. The Hospital-Ship

XXX. In Australia

XXXI. Using an Irishman's Nerve

PART VI: MEDITATIONS IN THE TRENCHES

XXXII. The Right Infantry Weapons

XXXIII. The Forcing-House of Bestiality

XXXIV. The Psychology of Fear

XXXV. The Splendor of the Present Opportunity

XXXVI. Not a Fight for "Race" but for "Right"

XXXVII. "Keeping Faith with the Dead"

Poem, "But a Short Time to Live"