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Excerpt from Sir Stanley Maude and Other Memories
Stories from the war zone - Bully - beef tin villages - German food rationing upset - Mr. Lloyd George and a General - Field Marshal Lord Methuen - His popularity - His interest in the sick - Kindness to the nurses - The King and Queen pay a sur prise visit - \vhat happened - An angry but playful doctor Lord Methuen and the soldiers' canteens - Some scandals Lord Leverhulme and Sir Richard Burbidge make enquiries The military authorities upset - General Sir Julian Byng - His new words of command - A dream realised - From charging cavalry to charging tanks - Etonians in the war - A human document - From a dead man's pocket - A Mrs. V.C. - The squire at a concert - A contretemps - Sir Wilfrid Lawson and Mr. Justice Grantham - They write verses - Some fellow-travellers. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
