Haunting Years. The Commentaries of a War Territorial [1930, British Army]

Haunting Years. The Commentaries of a War Territorial [1930, British Army]

Author: William Linton Andrews

Year: 1930

Digitised by Google Books from the collection of the University of California, see Source below. If necessary, click on Show More, below. The Foreword says "I call them haunting years, for nothing in our time will haunt us like the War. Our dead comrades live on in our thoughts, appealingly, as if afraid to be forgotten. Peace came, but not at once for those who survived. The War pressed down on some of us like a doom for years after the last shot was fired." The author, a journalist before the war, served in the 1/4th Black Watch, a Territorial Battalion, in the trenches of the Western Front from Feb 1915 to Jan 1918. During this period the 4th and 5th Black Watch were amalgamated. The author became orderly room sergeant, then company-quartermaster-sergeant. In January 1918 he returned to England to train as an officer, and was still in training when the armistice was declared. He was demobilized in January 1919 with the rank of second lieutenant, unpaid. Biographical details Sir (William) Linton Andrews was born in Hull in 1886 and was educated at Hull Grammar School and Christ's Hospital. From school he entered journalism and worked on a number of provincial newspapers, includin