Excerpt from Living Bayonets: A Record of the Last Push Hese selections from collected letters of I coningsby dawson have been edited by his sister, muriel dawson, and are published in response to hundreds of requests. Readers of his first volume of correspondence from the Front, issued under the title of Khaki C ourage, have written from all over the country asking that a further series be given them. The generous appreciation and personal interest expressed by these readers have induced Lieutenant coningsby dawson's family to publish these letters They take up his story at the point where Khaki Courage laid it down, at the time when America entered the war. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.