With the Serbs in Macedonia

CHAPTER I
GOING OVERSEAS
On June 14th, 1916, at Bulford Camp on
Salisbury Plain, the War Office went into
labour and brought forth 708 Company M.T.,
A.S.C. Part of the life history of that mouse,
technically a Light Supply and Ammunition
Column of Ford vans attached to the Serbian
Army, will be found in the following pages.
You are warned, however, at the start, that it is
only a small-beer chronicle. Here, as far as
our men are concerned, there are no records of
days and nights in waterlogged trenches under
concentrated shell-fire, and no pulse-stirring
descriptions of hand-to-hand encounters and
bayonet charges. We never fired a shot at
anything more exciting than a petrol tin for
revolver practice, or a wild goose or duck for a
dinner that usually remained in the air.
But we did our job, and we saw a little of the
Balkans. Mainly married and mostly of inferior
''
physique, we carried on ''—when there was
on to be done. In between those
any carrying
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