Description
DIARY OF A BRITISH TOMMY 1915 – 1919 by Robert Elverstone
127 Pages. 16 pages of black and white photographs. Book dimensions: 15.5cm x 23.5cm x 1cm.
Cady Hoyte, like many other young lads of his generation, proudly joined the army in 1915 to fight for King and Country. Originally from the Warwickshire town of Nuneaton, he joined the Warwickshire Yeomanry as a gunner in the Machine Gun Corp and quickly found that army life made no concessions for an eager 19 year old. Never having ridden before, he developed a special relationship with the horses, which made it all the harder when he had to say farewell and leave them behind to sail aboard the stricken ship, the Leasowe Castle, to fight in the trenches of France. Written with humour and honesty, Cady’s diary gives a detailed account of the daily struggles and constant dangers of army life in the First World War, without ever losing sight of his respect for human life.
