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And he is as fearless and high-hearted in the touching lines 'To C. H. V.':

He went to France as a lieutenant of the 3rd Rifle Brigade; was wounded in September 1916, was invalided home for a while, but had returned to the front by the end of the year. Scattered through the Letters to his Wife are his views on the war, his unbounded admiration of the cheerfulness and courage of his men, his deep resentment of the crimes of Germany, and his conviction that there could be no safety for the world and no peace till the