The Old Contemptibles [1919, British Army, Stories and sketches]
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- The Old Contemptibles [1919, British Army, Stories and sketches]
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The Old Contemptibles [1919, British Army, Stories and sketches]
Author: Boyd Cable (Ernest Andrew Ewart)
Year: 1919
Digitised by Google Books from the collection at the University of California https://books.google.com/books?id=DuQKAQAAIAAJ Part of the book was written in 1915. Some of the material had first appeared in The Cornhill Magazine, Land and Water, The Westminster Gazette, The War Illustrated , and The British Australasian . Boyd Cable was the nom de plume of Ernest Andrew Ewart, who was appointed Temporary Second Lieutenant 2nd September 1914 in the Royal Artillery where he served in France. By February 1917 he was Acting Captain while commanding a section of a Divisional Ammunition Column. In June 1918 he was awarded an OBE [Officer of the Order of the British Empire] at which time he was Captain, Propaganda Branch, Aircraft Production Department, Ministry of Munitions. Appointed Acting Lt-Colonel, whilst specially employed 12 November 1918. Some biographical details are provided in one of his other books, Grapes of Wrath , published 1917, available in the Internet Archive, see https://archive.org/details/grapesofwrath00cabluoft%2Fpage%2Fn11%2Fmode%2F2up
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