Great Britain at War

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In this short section the author lays out the details of his proposed tour and welcomes our American cousins to the great battle of our time, a battle that is for freedom and right.

The tour of Britain starts with a visit to an armament factory. We find women working and doing good service for the Empire as they make and prepare cartridges for all of the lands rifles.

The next stop on the tour is another armourment factory. Here rifles and Lewis guns are manufactured. We get to see the guns made and test fired.

A visit to Clydebank reveals the industry of Great Britain during war time as it churns out thousands of tons of ships every month.

The visit to the ship builders continues, a Master Builder introducers us to a Super Dreadnought and the tour cruises past long line of ships in the final stages of fitting out.

The tour moves onto a Battle Cruiser, the author is given a guided tour from the bowels of the ship past the big guns and up to the very mast head.

The tour crosses the channel and enters the land of battle, France. Here the author enters a hospital and finds the well run nursing doing great work. Sadly the visit to the ward of soldiers suffering shell shock reveals the darker side of the war.

In a rickerty car running along shell cratered roads the tour passes lines of wounded as it movs up to an artillery battery and finds the guns firing.

Moving back from the front line a visit to a training camp includes a trial by poisonous gas and a close encounter with greek fire.

The tour moves on to Arras and finds the town a shattered wreck of it former glory. At first it appears a wasteland but then the author finds there are still people there afterall...

The tour visits some quiet battlefields and the author has his stomach turned as he walks the cratered landscape of the unburied dead.

The stop is a front line aerodrome for a chat with the flying men. Here we learn of some of their daring deeds and watch new aircraft designs arriving to aid the war effort.

The tour moves to Ypres and the total devastation is a shock to behold. The town is gone, but in the midst of this death and destruction, glory and honour have been earned.