With the Guns West and East [1923, British Army]
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With the Guns West and East [1923, British Army]
Author: "Arnewood" (Edward Douglas Montague Hunter Cooke, RFA)
Year: 1923
Digitised by Google Books from the collection at the University of California https://books.google.com/books?id=ikZXzG_g1X4C Illustrated by Lt.-Col E A Hobday (and two sketches by L Raven Hill) The author is Major E D M H Cooke RFA according to page 177 War Books : a critical guide by Cyril Falls https://archive.org/details/warbookscritical0000fall%2Fpage%2F177%2Fmode%2F1up_%28to_see_this_link_you_need_to_sign_in%29._Elsewhere_the_full_name_is_stated_to_be_Edward_Douglas_Montague_Hunter_Cooke._The_author_went_to_France_with_the_5th_Royal_Horse_Artillery_Brigade_%28page_11%29_Later_he_was_in_command_of_a_battery_in_the_34th_Division_%28page_38%29%2C_probably_part_of_the_160th_Brigade_%28page_41%29._There_are_chapters_on_the_Western_Front%2C_India_where_he_was_tasked_with_founding_a_school_of_gunnery%2C_Palestine_1917-1918_and_Germany_1920._In_Palestine_he_was_part_of_60th_Division._Page_68_says_%E2%80%9CIt_fell_to_my_lot_to_be_the_first_British_soldier_in_Jerusalem._Just_after_8_a.m._on_the_9th_December_%5B1917%5D_I_found_myself_at_the_Jaffa_Gate._The_following_is_an_account_of_the_actual_surrender_of_the_Holy_City%2C_which_fell_before_the_60th_%28London%29_and_53rd_%28Welsh%29_Divisions.%E2%80%9D_After_the_armistice_he_was_sent_to_Germany_a