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Beyond Baghdad

with The Leicestershires

BY

E. J. Thompson M.C.






THE LEICESTERSHIRES BEYOND
BAGHDAD






The Leicestershires
Beyond Baghdad





BY

EDWARD J. THOMPSON, M.C.



AUTHOR OF
'MESOPOTAMIAN VERSES,' 'ENNERDALE BRIDGE'
'WALTHAM THICKETS,' ETC.









LONDON
THE EPWORTH PRESS
J. ALFRED SHARP






First Edition, December, 1919









To my brother, Frank D. Thompson, Second-Lieutenant CivilService Rifles, attached King's Royal Rifles; killed in action, nearYpres, Jan. 13, 1917.

Our soldier youth thrice-loved, whose laughing face
In battle's front can danger meet with eyes
No fear could e'er surprise;
Nor stain of self in their gay love leave trace,
His nature like his name,
Frank, and his eager spirit pure as flame.
Waltham Thickets.





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PREFACE


The Mesopotamian War was a side-show, so distant from Europe that eventhe tragedy of Kut and the slaughter which failed to save our troopsand prestige were felt chiefly in retrospect, when the majority of themen who suffered so vainly had gone into the silence of death or ofcaptivity. When Maude's offensive carried our arms again into Kut, and

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