Barnbarroch Posted 27 March , 2014 Share Posted 27 March , 2014 Veteran Volunteer, Memoir of the Trenches, Tanks and Captivity 1914 – 1919 by Frank Vans Agnew (Ed. Jamie Vans) is now available from Pen and Sword at pre-publication price of £15.99, see http://www.pen-and-sword.co.uk/Veteran-Volunteer/p/6107/ and from Amazon (UK) as well. Do buy it! And enjoy it! Would you like to review it? Jamie. Frank was a remarkable man: He was 46 when he travelled from America in 1914 to enlist, having been a veterinary surgeon, a farrier in Roosevelt’s Roughriders, an assayer at gold and copper mines in Western Canada and Kazakhstan, and an orange grower in Florida. Posted to the front in May 1915 Frank was soon in the thick of the action and in 1917 was transferred to the Tank Corps, winning an MC at Messines. He was wounded and captured in November and spent 13 months in POW camps before a spell in Copenhagen helping to repatriate British soldiers. His later career saw him in Belize, prospecting for chicle trees, ranching in New Mexico and growing daffodils in Cornwall before his retirement, which was interrupted by two years in the Home Guard and three in the Royal Observer Corps. He died in 1955. I only met him once, about a year before that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ghchurcher Posted 28 March , 2014 Share Posted 28 March , 2014 (edited) Congratulations Jamie. Ive ordered mine and am very much looking forward to it !! Kind Regards Geoffrey Edited 5 August , 2015 by Geoffrey Churcher Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Barnbarroch Posted 24 August , 2014 Author Share Posted 24 August , 2014 Congratulations Jamie. Ive ordered mine and am very much looking forward to it !! Kind Regards Geoffrey I hope you got your copy, Geoffrey! Did you enjoy it? Jamie. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ghchurcher Posted 25 August , 2014 Share Posted 25 August , 2014 Yes a super tribute to him, well done. Kind Regards Geoffrey Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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