At the Crack of Dawn - Air-Raiding before Breakfast, by Fl-Lt Harold Rosher | 24 March 1915 | Episode 60
Published on 24 March 1915
Some of the most moving documents in the literature of the war were the simple, unstudied letters written home by officers and men who, day after day, were facing the imminent threat of death. Flight-Lieut. Harold Rosher was in the Naval branch of the air service.
He was killed on February 27, 1916, when testing a machine at Dover. Earlier in the war he had taken part in several daring raids on German bases. It is fitting that a letter to his parents, written on March 24, 1915, should be reproduced in the precise words in which he wrote it - a tribute to a most gallant airman. The Editor of his war letters added to Mr. Rosher's own very modest account the official bulletins which were published at the time.