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Keen to serve his country during the Great War, 17-year-old James Malcolm enlisted in a Dundee Company of the Royal Engineers against the wishes of his parents. He fully expected to be sent to the trenches in France, but Fate decided otherwise and he ended up spending three years in India with the Worcesters. 

This is not a story of high adventure, but the record of his service compiled by his son from a diary and notes often difficult to decipher. Includes interesting historical photographs and illustrations.