Twelve Days on the Somme - Sidney Rogerson

[paulgranger]

The Kindle version is just 79p as we speak. First class offer for a first class memoir.

[Chris_Baker]

In my view, the best book on the Somme, bar none.

[ianw]

Just re-reading this excellent book and paused to look up the details of  Rogerson's 2nd Lt Pym (sic) whose disappearance early in the book causes the death of the officer who goes out to seek him. It turns out that he was in fact Victor Pimm who is commemorated on Thiepval.  He was from Southfields near Wimbledon but had emigrated to Canada pre-war .  The son of a middling good Victorian painter who apparently knew Van Gogh.