Stanley Booker was born in Clifton and attended Bristol Grammar School. When war broke out in 1914 he immediately volunteered to fight for his country. This book tracks his letters home, telling at first of boredom at training camps in England, but leading ultimately to front-line action and his heroic death in 1916.
His correspondence from the front was full of hope and pride -- 'there is nothing hard in dying for a great cause' -- and totally without a hint of doubt. He received the MC for conspicuous bravery, but was to fall, killed by a sniper's bullet when attempting to rescue a colleague from No-Man's Land.