By A. Rifleman.:
Four Years On The Western Front
Naval & Military Press Ltd (United Kingdom), 2006
Hardback, 424 pages
Size: 234x156 mm
ISBN: 9781847340696
ISBN-10: 1847340695
List price: £38.00
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Four Years On The Western Front
The author (real name Aubrey Smith) served with the London Rifle Brigade (1/5th Bn London Regt) throughout the Great War. The LRB was among the first Territorial battalions to land in France (November 1914) and 'Rifleman' joined it at the end of January 1915 in Plugstreet. He served in the trenches and in the battalion Transport Section. This is one of the classics among memoirs of an other rank, one to be counted with 'Old Soldiers Never Die' and 'There's a Devil in the Drum'. He saw action at Second Ypres (gas attack), Gommecourt, the Somme, Arras, Third Ypres, Cambral, in the German 1918 offensive and in the final advance. He was
