For Love and Courage: Letters Home from the Western Front 1914-1917

✍ Scribed by Hermon, E W

• Book ID: 108250636
• Publisher: Random House
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 7 MB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9781848090392

✦ Synopsis

Extracts from a unique collection of 700 First World War letters

Lt Colonel E.W. Hermon died in a hail of bullets on the 9th April 1917, the first day of the Battle of Arras, leading his men of the 24th Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers into the attack. Like hundreds of thousands of others in the Great War, he gave his life for his King and country. He was shot through the heart, one bullet slicing through the papers in his top pocket, including the four-leaf clover his wife had given him for good luck. His final words to his Adjutant were 'Go on!' before he sank to his knees and died almost instantaneously. He was carried from the battlefield by his faithful soldier servant, Buxton, and now lies buried in the Commonwealth War Graves Cemetery at Roclincourt, three miles from Arras. This could have been the end of the story but he left a testament of his life and ideals in a unique and hitherto unknown and unpublished collection of long and detailed letters he wrote to his...