Yet Another Glorious Day: The 1915 World War I Diary of Alexander Rule, D Company, 4th Gordon Highlanders. This item is unavailable.Yet Another Glorious Day: The 1915 World War I Diary of Alexander Rule, D Company, 4th Gordon Highlanders

'Yet Another Glorious Day' is the most frequent description of the weather given by an eighteen-year old Aberdeen University student in his 1915 diary. For most of that year Alexander Rule from Huntly, Aberdeenshire, Scotland, was a private in D Company, 4th Battalion of the Gordon Highlanders, fighting on the Western Front. This transcript of his personal diary shows how Private Rule’s teenage enthusiasm and excitement at reaching the Front – “Saw a shell bursting for the first time!” – change as the realities of seeing friends killed and the often harsh living conditions sink in. Yet it is not all doom and gloom. Visits to local cafés are numerous, mail arrives regularly, singsongs are frequent and there is tremendous camaraderie. This book enhances the transcript with accompanying illustrated notes, explanations and analysis and will be of interest to all ages, both those new to accounts of The Great War, as well as to readers who have some knowledge of WW1 and the part played in it by the North East of Scotland.