[9] All numerals relate to stories herein told--not to chapters from
original sources.
"AT SUVLA BAY"--THE WAR AGAINST THE TURKS
_Adventures on the Blue Aegean Shores_
_Told by John Hargrave, the Famous Scoutmaster in the Mediterranean
Expeditionary Forces_
John Hargrave is known throughout England as "White Fox," the
famous scoutmaster. On September 8th, 1914, he said farewell to
his little camp in the beechwoods of Buckinghamshire and to his
woodcraft scouts and went off to enlist in the Royal Army Medical
Corps. He was assigned to the 32nd Field Ambulance, X Division,
Mediterranean Expeditionary Forces, and sailed away to Suvla Bay,
where he passed through the tragic scenes of the Dardanelles
Campaign. He soon began sending stories "back home," achieving for
the Gallipoli Campaign what Ian Hay did for the Western Front.
These stories have been collected into a volume entitled: "At
Suvla Bay," which is published in America by _Houghton, Mifflin
and Company_. There are twenty-eight narratives told in the jargon
of the common soldier. He tells about its being "A Long Way to
Tipperary"; "Mediterranean Nights"; "Marooned on Lemnos Island";
"The Adventure of the White Pack Mule"; "The Sniper of Pear-Tree
Gulley"; "The Adventure of the Lost Squads"; "Dug-Out Yarns"; "The
Sharpshooters"; and many other incidents of Army life. One of his
narratives, "Jhill-O! Johnnie!" is here retold by permission of his
publishers.