Nothing of Importance / A record of eight months at the front with a Welsh battalion, October, 1915, to June, 1916

A first-person record of eight months at the front with a battalion during the First World War, blending vivid trench scenes—patrols, sniping, mines, working-parties, marches, billets—and the daily routines of officers and men with reflective passages on courage, comradeship, and the erosion of martial romance. The account alternates practical detail and quiet moral observation, tracing shifts from first impressions through combat, rest, and recovery, and concluding with the author's wounding. Maps and a portrait supplement the text as it aims to convey the lived experience and human costs of modern industrialized conflict.