Len’s Reviews > The Machine Gunner > Status Update

The author served as a machine gunner with the 98th Machine Gun Company. He volunteered for service in October 1915 at the age of 18. In July 1916 he stepped off the troop train at Amiens and was soon marching to the Somme. That is as far as I have reached at page 50. It is already a frightening book. He has witnessed deaths, injuries, he has already been wounded himself and survived a gas attack. He is barely 19.