Title: Gallop!
Description: A gentleman with much hunting experience joins a Cavalry regiment in July 1914 at the age of 36 as a Trooper.
Serves in the retreat of the Expedionary Force to the Marne and is wounded.
 After recovery is commissioned and joins a Yeomanry Regiment sent to the Middle East. Fights against the Senussi in the Libyan Desert [with interesting description of El Alamien railway and Mersa Matruh-written in 1932].Again wounded -recovers and then takes part in the 1917 advance across the Suez Canal .
 Last wounds leading to return to England and reuniting with early love who has been serving as VAD in France and Egypt. Excellent observation of  the scenery, particulary Libya and Sinai.
This is very much autobiographical. John Ressich joined the reserve regiment of Life Guards in 1914. He was commissioned into the Berkshire Yeomanry early in 1915. He saw action in the Libyan desert against the Sennusi where he was seriously wounded.
Subjects: Fiction, World War, 1914-1918