The post of honour

NURSE CAVELL WITH HER FAVOURITE DOGS.
THE POST OF HONOUR
STORIES OF DARING DEEDS DONE BY MEN OF THE BRITISH EMPIRE IN THE GREAT WAR
TOLD BY RICHARD WILSON
1917 LONDON & TORONTO J. M. DENT & SONS LTD.


The author has used a large number of sources—newspapers, official reports, private letters and diaries, as well as books—in gathering the facts for these simple stories. Acknowledgments have been made wherever it was possible to trace the source, and indulgence is asked if through inadvertence or inability to find the original report any requisite acknowledgment has been omitted. Very meagre particulars of most of these brave deeds are at present available, for the British V.C. does not talk of his exploits. But such facts as are actually known ought surely to be given the widest possible publicity, especially in the schools of the Empire.
“If I should die, think only this of me, That there’s some corner of a foreign field That is for ever England.”
Rupert Brooke.
“Will you at least try, if I am killed, not to let the things I have loved cause you pain, but rather to get increased enjoyment from the Sussex Downs, or from Janie singing folk-songs, because I have found such joy in them, and in that way the joy I have found can continue to live.”
Letter to his Mother, from a young British officer who was killed in action.