As Good as Any Man: Scotland's Black Tommy

Morag Miller,Roy Laycock,John Sadler,Rosie Serdiville

As Good as Any Man: Scotland's Black Tommy
Format
Paperback
Publisher
The History Press Ltd
Country
United Kingdom
Published
1 August 2014
Pages
192
ISBN
9780750953740

As Good as Any Man: Scotland’s Black Tommy

Morag Miller,Roy Laycock,John Sadler,Rosie Serdiville

When the harrowing Great War diaries of one of Britain’s first black soldiers were unearthed in a dusty Scottish attic nearly 100 years after they were written, they posed a bit of a mystery. The diary entries ? ranging from May 1917 to March 1918 ? were written by one Arthur Roberts while he served initially with the King’s Own Scottish Borderers before being transferred to Royal Scots Fusiliers in 1917. He details what life was like for him during the First World War, how he survived the Battle of Passchendaele, and how he escaped unscathed when a German shell killed a dozen men round him. Yet Arthur was an otherwise unknown man ? what was the rest of his life like?

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