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THE

OLD FRONT LINE

JOHN MASEFIELD

Author of "Gallipoli," etc.

New York

THE MACMILLAN COMPANY

1918

All rights reserved

COPYRIGHT, 1917

By JOHN MASEFIELD

Set up and electrotyped. Published, December, 1917. Reprinted January, 1918.

NEVILLE LYTTON

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

FACING PAGE

The Road up the Ancre Valley 16

Artillery Transport in Bapaume Road 28

Troops Moving to the Front 38

An Artillery Team 40

View in Hamel 42

The Ancre River 44

The Ancre Opposite Hamel 48

The Leipzig Salient 58

Dugouts in La Boisselle 66

La Boisselle 70

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