An account of the Front Line from the Guards Brigade
The Guards have always been known as 'The Gentlemen's Sons' and it
seems that the author of this book was no exception. At work in
'the City' when war broke out and he managed initially to be
elected to that other gentleman's club of the time-The Honourable
Artillery Company. It was with the HAC that he went to the
continent and saw action in the early engagements of the war before
selection for cadet school and a commission. Upon returning to the
Front, Fryer embarked on a wartime career that would keep him in
action almost constantly throughout the hostilities and which he
would report with nothing less than the casual savoir faire one
would expect of him. Despite his style Fryer clearly saw hard
campaigning at Givenchy, Loos, the Hohenzollern Redoubt, Ypres, the
Somme and many other brutal and significant actions until the final
offensives of 1918.