Long Lines of Death, by Corporal John F Lucy | 23 August 1914 | Episode 14

The author of this magnificent description of his experiences at Mons, who, with his brother, ran away from home and enlisted in the Royal Irish Rifles in 1912, was a Corporal in 1914. He rose to the rank of Sergeant and was commissioned 2nd-Lt. in 1917, retiring as a Captain. He was invalided home with multiple wounds during the 2nd battle of Ypres. He wrote a famous war book 'There's a Devil in the Drum'.