Description

Poetry and prose from the front lines – written and illustrated by a serving Lance-Corporal with 1st/ 4 Battalion Black Watch. He was known as the “Black Watch poet” . His battalion fought at Festubert, Neuve Chapelle, Aubers Ridge, and the Battle of Loos. Includes the famous little poem

The Bullet

‘Every bullet has its billet;
Many bullets more than one:
God! Perhaps I killed a mother
When I killed a mother’s son.’

This copy is signed by Lee to the title page, and with an ownership inscription by his fellow dundonian Quarter Master Sergeant Major Charles S. Reid of the Black Watch. It is particularly poignant taht shortly after the book was published Reid received the news that his own son, in the Seaforth Highlanders had been killed at th efront.

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