All Well Yet (Paperback)

Name: All Well Yet (Paperback)
Author: William Neilson Brown
ISBN: 9781497522817

William Neilson Brown

Language: English

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Paperback. Over 40 letters, written between 1915 - 1918 from both France and Italy, reproduced as they were written, from the hell of the trenches to tucking into a delightful, although unexpected meal on Christmas Day - these are some of the most colourful, graphic and moving accounts of a soldier's life during World War 1. All Well Yet It is impossible to describe the 'no mans land', it's the greyness of it, the actual want of colour, the endless succession of holes and mounds, shattered timbers sticking up from mud, endless abandoned trenches, rows of trees halved, or stripped into poles, the extraordinary amount of abandoned equipment bombs, rifles, clothing, and the dead amongst it all, quiet, not repulsive, fitting into the drab scene, sometimes German sometimes English. In twos or threes as they were killed, or one by himself, lonely even in this lonely place. The pools of water in the shell holes are green or red, and over the endless stumps and twisted broken wires rises the sour smell of battlefield. The Lewis guns having the time of their lives, and crying, their voices lost in the din of the shells and the savage yells of our men half mad with blood over the ruins of house and orchard, a machine gun, manned to the last, holds up the line, the bombers swing round it, rifle grenades add to the din and it stops. Then the objective, furious digging, rushing up and down, stores up, guns in position, and then comparative quiet. When the smoke clears away, the bright sunlight reveals every sordid detail of a mechanical war. Stores lie in every direction, everything broken, and every here and there a man, twisted into dreadful attitudes, but with quiet faces they lie where they fell, the dust veiling the wounds, finished with it all. 'All Well Yet' - compiled by Timothy James Brown (Grandson of William Neilson Brown) This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.…

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Title: All Well Yet (Paperback)
Author: William Neilson Brown
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Publication year: 2014
Condition: new
Binding: Paperback
Language: English
ISBN 10: 1497522811
ISBN 13: 9781497522817

About the Author

William Neilson Brown was born on the 3rd May, 1883, into a Scottish Borders family of textile mill owners. His father, Alexander Laing Brown was the MP for the Border Burghs during the 1880’s. At the age of 17, Brown joined the local Volunteers and then the Border Rifle Volunteers, winning several shooting prizes at Bisley, before joining the 4th Battalion King’s Own Scottish Borderers. He served as a volunteer from 1900 – 1908. When the 1st World War broke out in 1914, he volunteered for service with the Army Service Corps in Japan, before returning home and joining the 2nd Battalion, Gordon Highlanders in 1915. During his service, Major Brown was wounded twice; In October 1917 and January 1918, and won the Military Cross for gallantry and bravery in Italy, Belgium and France, as well as the 1914 Star, British War Medal, Allied Victory Medal and the Italian Generals Silver Medal for the Battle of Piave. Normally, letters written in the field would be censored, however, the letters which you are about to read are particularly graphic and extraordinarily detailed, whilst laced with his wry humour and wisdom. The letters were written between 1915 – 1918 from both France and Italy to his Aunt, Minnie McGilvroy, who lived in Galashiels, in the Scottish Borders. William had always had a literary leaning both before and after the Great War. He was a published author and at one time was editor of the ‘Border Standard’, now the ‘Border Telegraph’. Perhaps this passion for the written word came from his uncle, James Brown, better known as J.B. Selkirk, the Scottish poet. After the war William Brown travelled extensively before returning to the Borders, where he met and married Marjorie Isabella MacGowan. They had two children, William Alexander Brown, who passed away in 1984 and a daughter, Margery, who at the time of compiling this book, resides in Melbourne, Australia. During the Second World War he was engaged in the censorship division of the Admiralty which was stationed at Scapa Flow. His son William Alexander Brown followed his father into the army; Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, also attaining the rank of major and was awarded the MBE as well as Pakistan’s highest military honour for securing the Gilgit province for Pakistan during the partition of India in 1947. William Neilson Brown died, age 70, in August 1953 and is buried with his wife, who survived him by 30 years, in Wairds cemetery, Melrose, Scottish Borders.

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