Phyllida Shaw
Author
Publisher
The History Press
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Description
When the First World War broke out, Morris Meredith Williams was living in Edinburgh with his wife Alice, a sculptor and earning his living from book illustration and teaching. A short man, his attempt to join the army in 1914 failed but 6 months later he was accepted by the 17th Battalion, the Welsh Regiment. From June 1916, he spent 10 months in and out of the trenches of the Western front. In 1917 he was with heavy artillery, mapping enemy positions...