Valentine Williams

These are the wartime adventures of 'Vedette', a pseudonym of noted journalist and screenwriter Valentine Williams, during the First World War. Williams volunteered for service at the age of 32, a little on the old side for service in a regiment as prestigious and hard fighting as the Irish Guards. He was commissioned as a 2nd Lieutenant or 'Ensign', and found himself travelling to France and the frontline in 1916. There was little enough time for...