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Herman Cyril McNeile MC (28 September 1888 - 14 August 1937) commonly known as Cyril McNeile and publishing under the name H. C. McNeile or the pseudonym Sapper was a British soldier and author. Drawing on his experiences in the trenches during the First World War he started writing short stories and getting them published in the Daily Mail. As serving officers in the British Army were not permitted to publish under their own names he was given the pen name Sapper by Lord Northcliffe the owner of the Daily Mail; the nickname was based on that of his corps the Royal Engineers.