RHYMES OF A RED CROSS MAN

A nice edition with 35 illustrations 8 of them full page (in color in the Kindle version). The cover is from the first American edition.Robert Service was 40 when World War I broke out. During the war he worked as a stretcher bearer and ambulance driver with the Ambulance Corps of the American Red Cross until his health broke. Convalescing in Paris he wrote a new book of mainly war poetry Rhymes of a Red Cross Man in 1916. The book was dedicated to the memory of Service''s brother Lieutenant Albert Service Canadian Infantry Killed in Action France August 1916. The book contains 53 poems.