Patrick MacGill, the Donegal-born navvy turned poet, joined the London Irish when war broke out, and here describes life as a raw recruit: enlistment and billets at Chelsea, rations and sick parade, pickets and special leave, drill at the White City and night marches at St. Albans. Humour and sharp observation catch the citizen soldiers of Kitchener’s army before France.
The first of MacGill’s war books, a vivid portrait of Britain’s volunteers in training. Download the free EPUB.