Abstract

The Great Adventure

The article presents information about the book "The Diary of a Dead Officer," by Arthur Graeme West. The book contains posthumous papers of the author. West was born in 1891 and in January 1915, at the age of twenty-three he joined the army as a private in the Public Schools Battalion, in November 1915 he crossed to France and after four months' service at the front he returned to England to be trained as an officer; in September 1916, he went to France again with a commission, and served there continuously until, in the early spring of 1917, he wag shot through the head by a sniper as lie was getting out of a trench. While he was in the army he kept a diary, which is printed, together with a few poems as small book of ninety-six pages.