Victorian Childhood and College Life in Edwardian London (1883-1907) - Lott family roots in Flatford - links to Willy Lott's Cottage - My grandparents and parental influences - Childhood in Ashen, Essex, where my father started farming - Life in the farming villages of East Anglia during my boyhood - Schooldays in Dorchester and nature field trips - Appointment as an organist in Dorchester churches - College life in digs in Edwardian London - My first job as a tutor to Cyril Skinner - Assistant engineer on the 1905 Atlantic Cable expedition - Practical experience at Marshall's of Gainsborough - Decision to emigrate Volume 2 Emigration and the Adventures of a Young Engineer in Canada (1907-1914) - Emigration to Canada in 1907 - Life in Montreal and finding a job in testing and inspection - Inspector of bridge works in New Glasgow and St Casimir - Inspector of bridge construction on the Red River, Winnipeg - Toronto, Niagara, and ice-yachting on Lake Ontario in 1909 - Two years in construction camps north-east of Winnipeg - Inspector of transmission line to Pointe du Bois power plant - Hunting moose and caribou in Manitoba and Quebec - Canoe trips on the Winnipeg River and later in Montreal - Supervision of drilling for a dam on the North Saskatchewan River - Consulting engineer in Montreal with T. Pringle & Son - Survey for a hydro-electric scheme on St Maurice River - Chief designer of a new factory for Kodak in Toronto - Leaving Canada to join up for World War I in 1914 - Across Canada on return from Mesopotamia in 1924 Volume 3 The Life of a Pioneer and Engineer on the Western Front (1914-1919) - Joining the 8th Battalion, Royal Sussex (Pioneer) Regiment - Training in England and arrival in France, July 1915 - Life and work in the trenches - The Loos Show - September to October 1915 - Appointment as Captain in 'B' Company - The Somme 1916 and award of the Military Cross - Transfer to the Royal Engineers - Commander of No.5 Army Tramway Company - John English Lott - killed in action - May 1917 - The Battle of Passchendaele - July to Nov 1917 - Wounded and convalescence - Oct 1917 to Feb 1918 - Back to the Somme - the German Spring Offensive - Controller of Foreways, 5th Army - promotion to Major - Armistice Day and Spanish Flu - Nov/Dec 1918 - Clearance of the Battle Areas - 1919 Volume 4 Mesopotamia (1919-1924) The Story of an Engineer with the British Army of Occupation - Transfer to Mesopotamia and journey to Baghdad in 1919 - Appointment as Assistant Director of Works in Baghdad - Visit to Persia for Christmas 1919 - The Arab Revolt, 1920 ix - Spring and Autumn in Baghdad, 1921 - Deputy Director of RE Services in Basra, 1922 - Engineering projects and a new Chief Engineer, 1923 - Ur of the Chaldees and Babylonian tablets - The Marsh Arabs and shooting trips in the Marshes - Social life and staff reductions in Basra, 1923 - My dinners with King Feisal in June 1923 - Inspection flights with the RAF - Work with Air Marshall Sir John Salmond - Managing my Arab and Indian workforce - Farewell to Iraq in February 1924 Volume 5 World Travels and London Life between the Wars (1924-1933) - Returning from Iraq around the world in 1924 - In the crater during the eruption of Mt Kilauea, Hawaii - In Kenya with the East African Power and Light Co. 1924 - Start of my 30 year career with Balfour Beatty in 1925 - London life and visits to the Continent in 1926/27/28 - Princess Nina Mdivani and Charles Huberich - Safaris in Kenya surveying sites for hydro-electric schemes - Bidding for the Shanghai Electricity Department - On the Trans-Siberian Railway and around the world in 1929 - Negotiations with the Madras Government for Pykara Falls - World Power Conference, Berlin, in June 1930 - Club life and fine dining in London in 1932 - Survey of Government Electrical Installations in Nigeria, 1932 - The end of my first half-century - 1933
