The Author served with the London Scottish and gives a graphic personal account of being shipped to France as a replacement early in 1915. He t ells of their part in the Battle of Lille, trench life, patrols and raids and of his time as a sniper until he was blown up by a shell, hospitalised and discharged in January 1916, from whence he set off for the USA to try to persuade them to join the fight.
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