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Diary Kept by Rifleman B. C. Stubbs of the Second Draft Sent to the Queen Victoria Rifles in France

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A young soldier's wartime diary records enlistment through training, sea and rail transport, and arrival at the Western Front, offering a day-by-day account of marches, inspections, billets, and brief entertainments. It details trench routines and the persistent hardships of mud, cold, scarce water, and filth, alongside camaraderie, letters, and small comforts. Entries recount frontline engagements, artillery barrages and constant strain, culminating in a severe head wound that leads to hospitalisation and death. The narrative blends practical, immediate detail with reflective observations on duty, sacrifice and the everyday measures that sustained men under fire.

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Title: Diary Kept by Rifleman B. C. Stubbs of the Second Draft Sent to the Queen Victoria Rifles in France

Author: Bernard C. Stubbs

Release date: June 23, 2018 [eBook #57381]

Language: English

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BERNARD CASTLE STUBBS


Proem

So at the threat ye shall summon—so at the need ye shall send
Men, not children or servants, tempered and taught to the end;
Cleansed of servile panic, slow lo dread or despise
Humble because of knowledge, mighty by sacrifice....
So ye shall bide sure guarded when the restless lightnings wake
In the womb of the blotting war cloud, and the pallid nations quake.
Rudyard Kipling


DIARY KEPT BY
RIFLEMAN B. C. STUBBS

OF THE SECOND DRAFT
SENT TO THE
QUEEN VICTORIA RIFLES
IN FRANCE

CHICAGO
PRIVATELY PRINTED
1915


Copyright, 1916, by
RALPH McCOY