In the Royal Naval Air Service / Being the war letters of the late Harold Rosher to his family

Transcriber's Note.
Apparent typographical errors have been corrected. The use of hyphens and of accents has been rationalised.
In the Royal Naval Air Service
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FLIGHT-LIEUT. HAROLD ROSHER, R.N.
BEING THE WAR LETTERS OF THE LATE HAROLD ROSHER TO HIS FAMILY
WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY ARNOLD BENNETT
LONDON CHATTO & WINDUS 1916
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Harold Rosher was born at Beckenham on the 18th November, 1893, and was educated at The Dene, Caterham, and subsequently at Woodbridge. Although as a boy he suffered severely from acute asthma and bronchitis, he did well at school; and the pluck which carried him through the moral distresses of asthma helped him to hold his own in games, despite the fact that up to the age of sixteen he was considerably under the average height. As his health did not cease to give anxiety, he was taken for a holiday to India (being with his father the guest of the Maharajah Ranjitsinhji, Jam Sahib of Nawanagar) in 1909. In 1913, for the same reason, he made a trip to South Africa with his sister. It was his health again which helped to decide his career. An open-air life was considered to be essential, and he became a student at the South Eastern Agricultural College, Wye, remaining there until the outbreak of the war.