A Gloucestershire Lad at Home and Abroad

PREFACE

Most of these poems were written at the Front, and appeared in the _Fifth Gloucester Gazette_--the first paper ever published from the trenches.

The author was then a Lance-Corporal in the 5th Battalion of the Gloucestershire Regiment, and as such gained the Distinguished Conduct Medal in August, 1915.

The award appears as follows in the _London Gazette_--

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