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WITH OUR FIGHTING MEN
With
Our Fighting Men
THE STORY OF
THEIR FAITH, COURAGE, ENDURANCE
IN THE GREAT WAR
BY
WILLIAM E. SELLERS
Author of "From Aldershot to Pretoria"
WITH COLOURED AND OTHER
ILLUSTRATIONS FROM DRAWINGS AND FROM
PHOTOGRAPHS
London
THE RELIGIOUS TRACT SOCIETY
4 Bouverie Street & 65 St. Paul's Churchyard
PREFACEToC
In sending forth this book I wish to acknowledge the kindness andco-operation of many friends, new and old, who have made my task easyand my story, so far as possible, complete.
In the first place, I express my hearty thanks to the Rt. Rev. BishopTaylor-Smith, D.D. (the Chaplain General); Revs. E.G.F. Macpherson,M.A., and F.G. Tuckey (senior Church of England chaplains at thefront); Rev. J.A. M'Clymont, D.D., V.D. (Convener of the Church ofScotland General Assembly's Committee on Army and Navy chaplains);Rev. J.H. Bateson (Secretary of the Wesleyan Methodist Army and NavyBoard); Rev. J.H. Shakespeare, M.A. (Secretary of the Baptist Union ofGreat Britain and Ireland, and of the Free Church Army and NavyBoard); Rev. E.L. Watson (senior Free Church chaplain at the front);[iv]General Booth and Brigadier Carpenter (of the Salvation Army); Mr.A.K. Yapp (General Secretary of the Young Men's ChristianAssociation); and several others.
In the second place, I acknowledge with gratitude the help I havereceived from reports in the Methodist Recorder, Methodist Times,United Free Church of Scotland Record, Church Pennant, BaptistTimes and Freeman, Guardian, Guy's Hospital Gazette, War Cry,and many other papers, to the respective editors of which I tender mythanks.
I also wish to express my cordi