The Emma Gees

An officer's firsthand account of service with a machine-gun section during the First World War, compiled from letters, notes, maps, and photographs. It traces movement to front-line sectors, day-to-day tasks of marches, entrenchment, and gun operation, and chronicles participation in major engagements, poison-gas episodes, and encounters with enemy aircraft. Practical material on signaling, trench maps, and weapon handling is combined with observation of casualties, the destruction of towns, and relations among soldiers. The narrative balances technical and tactical detail with sober personal reflection on endurance, loss, and the routines of life at and behind the front.