Officer and Temporary Gentleman is a soldier's tale. It deals with the fateful years of 1914-18 which brought about the slaughter of millions of his contemporaries and also the destruction of the old order in Europe. Though only seventeen when the First World War began, he immediately set about the task of joining up. It proved an initially frustrating business, but eventually he was gazetted a second lieutenant in the Royal Field Artillery (T). After training and serving in various parts of England, often bedevilled by ill-health, he was sent to the Western Front; first to Ypres Salient in Flanders, and thence into northern France where such now legendary names as Cambrai and St Quentin became part of his experience.
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