Mud, Blood and Bullets

Auteur

EDWARD ROWBOTHAM was born in 1890, one of 14 children from a working class family in the Black Country. In 1915 he volunteered for Kitchener's Army, and was drafted into the newly-formed Machine Gun Corps and sent to the Western Front. He fought in many major battles - the Somme, Flers, Cambrai, Passchendaele. He survived a bullet wound to the temple, and won the Military Medal for bravery. JANET TUCKER is Edward Rowbotham's granddaughter. During the 90th anniversary celebrations of World War One she decided to edit and transcribe his memoirs for future generations.

Texte du rabat

He is one of the `lucky' ones, winning the Military Medal for bravery and surviving more than two-and-a-half years of the terrible slaughter that left nearly a million British soldiers dead by 1918 and wiped out all but six of his original company.