Автор: Carole Mcentee-Taylor
Название: From Colonial Warrior to Western Front Flyer: The Five Wars of Sydney Herbert Bywater
Издательство: Pen & Sword
ISBN: 1473823595
Язык: Английский
Год: 2015
Формат: PDF (conv)
Размер: 6,6 МБ
Кол-во страниц: 240

Sydney Herbert Bywater Harris was an adventurer, a man possessed of great courage and charm, who fulfilled every schoolboy fantasy and really did ‘live the dream’.
The second youngest of seven children, the ordinary life held little appeal for Sydney so, in 1898, at the age of 17, he left home in Ilford for the Klondike gold rush. Arriving too late to make his fortune he decided to join the US Army.
Two and a half years later, after seeing action in the Boxer Rebellion and the Philippines Insurrection, Sydney returned to England where he met and married Elsa de Verde Verder, a lady from an affluent Vermont family. A year later Sydney joined the Kings Colonials Imperial Yeomanry, later renamed the King Edward's Horse.