Transcriber's note: Obvious printer's errors have been corrected.Hyphenation and accentuation have been standardised, allother inconsistencies are as in the original. The author's spellinghas been maintained.

Lieut. Paul Jones.
(From a Photograph by his Brother.)

WAR LETTERS
OF A
PUBLIC-SCHOOL BOY

BY
PAUL JONES

Lieutenant of the Tank Corps

Scholar-Elect of Balliol College, Oxford: Head of the Modern Sideand Captain of Football, Dulwich College, 1914

WITH A MEMOIR BY HIS FATHER
HARRY JONES

He was the very embodiment in himself of all that is best in the public-school spirit, the very incarnation of self-sacrifice and devotion.

A Dulwich Master.

WITH EIGHT PLATES

CASSELL AND COMPANY, LTD
London, New York, Toronto and Melbourne
1918

(p. v) CONTENTS

  •   PAGE
  • Introductory 1

PART I. MEMOIR

Chapter

  • Childhood 9
  • At Dulwich College 14
  • Football 28
  • Cricket 37
  • Editor of The Alleynian 41
  • Public Schools and the War 47
  • Tastes and Hobbies 52
  • Music 59
  • Literature and Ethics 72
  • History and Politics 85
  • In the Army 98
  • Personal Characteristics 110

PART II. WAR LETTERS