Indian Cavalry Officer 1914-15 - Captain Roly Grimshaw

From the cover: “The First World War is full of stories of immense and unacknowledged heroism, of devotion above and beyond the call of duty and of extraordinary endurance and sacrifice. Perhaps nowhere are these qualities better exemplified than in the story of the Indian Army Corps on the Western Front between 1914 and 1915.

Captain Grimshaw began his diary on the day war was declared. A distant spectator of the initial stages of the war, he arrived in France with his regiment in October 1914 just in time to stop the gap at Ypres. He chronicles how, in dreadful weather conditions and at appalling cost of life, his sowars (troopers) provided the catalyst which turned the tide of the battle. Later wounded leading a hopeless frontal attack, he never recovered sufficiently to return to the trenches.

Hardback with dj

Illustrated

Printed - 1986

Pages -223

ISBN - 0710430272

Previous owner's name in front

Pencil price erased in front

Overall condition - very good used book

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