Old Wine and New

Book excerpt: [The story] starts by introducing Scarsdale, a literary gent in peacetime who has become a nursing orderly with the RAMC on the western Front. One day he walks towards the front trenches, to see for himself the full truth of war. He is diverted from this mission by meeting Marwood, a soldier with whom he feels an affinity. When Marwood later arrives at Scarsdale's Casualty Clearing Station, wounded and close to death, he gives the medic a packet of photographs and letters to take home to his daughter. ...