New PDF release: Memoirs of a Rifleman Scout

By Major F M Crum

ISBN-10: 1848327552

ISBN-13: 9781848327559

Frederick Maurice Crum (1879–1952) fought within the moment Boer struggle (1899–1902) within the fastened Infantry, the place he was once wounded and brought prisoner. After peacetime carrier in India he retired as a result of results of his accidents, and have become eager about the Boy Scout flow, founding the seventh Troop of Boy Scouts at Stirling in Scotland in 1909. at the outbreak of warfare in 1914 he rejoined the Rifle Corps and served with its eighth Battalion in France till 1919, specialising in trench sniping.  Made up from his huge diaries and letters to friends and family on the time, this publication info the advance of sniping within the British military within the First international battle. It was once during the paintings of specialist marksmen and running shoes like significant Crum that the preliminary dominance of the Germans during this form of battling used to be ultimately conquer. those memoirs supply a special perception into the lifetime of a British military officer ahead of and through the 1st global struggle. significant Crum's involvement within the Boy Scout circulate is additionally a desirable account of that organisation's origins, displaying what the genuine factors at the back of its origin were.  With a brand new Foreword by means of sniping specialist Adrian Gilbert, this isn't just a first-class memoir of sniping within the trenches, but additionally of an extended, extraordinary lifetime of bravery

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