Blood and Thunder (68 page)

7. 2nd Lt Charles William North Garstin, 9th Lancers. (Author’s collection)

8. Detail from a fanciful portrayal of the 9th Lancers saving the guns on 24 August 1914 as it appeared in the pictorial press. (Author’s collection)

9. Lt The Hon. John Neville Manners in his cricket whites at Eton, 1910. (Private collection)

10. 2nd Lt John Reynolds Pickersgill-Cunliffe, at Eton
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.1908. (Private collection)

11. Men of the 2nd Grenadier Guards are saluted by the king, August 1914. Jack Pickersgill-Cunliffe is marked by a cross. (Private collection)

12. George Llewelyn Davies, 4th Rifle Brigade. (Author’s collection)

13. Guards Grave Cemetery as it looked after the war, when Rudyard Kipling described it as ‘the prettiest cemetery on the Western Front’. (Private collection)

14. 2nd Lt Gerard Frederick Freeman-Thomas, 1st Coldstream Guards (rear) with his brother Inigo at Eton in 1912. (Author’s collection)

15. 2nd Lt Reginald William Fletcher, Royal Field Artilley. Taken at Oxford in 1914. (Author’s collection)

16. George Fletcher (right) shares his love of climbing with his brother Regie on the Isle of Skye, summer 1914. (Author’s collection)

17. Lieutenant Lord Worsley, Royal Horse Guards. (Author’s collection)

18. An officer tries to make his way down a waterlogged trench in George Fletcher’s sector at Bois Grenier, spring 1915. (Author’s collection)