Even among the highly-trained and professional soldiers of the B.E.F in 1914 the men of the Seventh division stood apart for their bearing and training, for the contained no reservists; all were full-time soldiers. Accompanying these uncompromising men, was Reverend Kennedy, assigned to the 20th Brigade, which was to see much action during the opening months of the First World War.
After a year with the troops the Reverend returned to England and composed his memoirs of the period but did not survive long enough to see their publication.
Author Rev. Edmund John Kennedy d. 1915.
Preface Right Reverend the Lord Bishop of Winchester.
Text taken, whole and complete, from the edition published in London, Hodder and Stoughton, 1916.