Fresh from Balliol, Watson enlisted in August 1914 as a motorcycle despatch rider with the British Expeditionary Force. He rode through the Battle of Mons and Le Cateau, the great retreat, the advance over the Marne to the Aisne and the first months in Flanders, carrying messages under fire and scrounging firewood that turned out to be a bridge.
One of the freshest and most humorous memoirs of 1914, written while the war was still young. Download the free EPUB.