Sniper on the Ypres Salient: An Infantryman's War in the Royal Welsh Fusiliers (Boase Sue)(Pevná vazba)

Just after midnight on 22 April 1916 on the Western Front, a sergeant from the 15th (1st London) Royal Welsh Fusiliers came sliding and stumbling along the dark, mud-filled trench towards the four men, huddled together and soaked-through, in the shallow dugout. He was clutching his postbag in which there were four parcels for one of them, William McCrae, whose twentieth birthday fell on this day.
A hand-written account by William, the author's grandfather, was found in her mother's papers, long after his death. This book describes a year of his time fighting in the First World War, from December 1915 to December 1916.
Two months after his birthday, he was marching towards the Somme, where he was to act as a runner during the key Welsh engagement in the Battle of Mametz Wood. Later, he went on to volunteer and train as a sniper. He continued in this role for over a
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