A Gunner's Great War: An Artilleryman's Experience from the Somme to the Subcontinent

"A graphic and moving account of an artilleryman's experience on the Western Front. An interesting book for those who like artillery and WWI" (English Heritage).

If the First World War had not happened when it did, Channel Islander Clarence Ahier would almost certainly have led a mostly unremarkable life. But it did, and in October 1915, at just twenty-three-years-old, Clarence left his home and volunteered to join the British Army. He would spend the next two and half years serving as ...