H.E.L Mellersh
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H.E.L. Mellersh, was a British author, primarily of text books, and also of a novel and an autobiograpghy about his experience of World War I. The autobiography, "A schoolboy goes to war" is is an account of his recruitment at the age of 18, directly from school as an officer in the British army. He served on the western front and was wounded twice.
Quote: "I and my like entered the war expecting an heroic adventure and believing implicitly in the rightness of our cause [sounds like Cather's hero Claude]; we ended greatly disillusioned as to the nature of the adventure, but still believing that our cause was right and we had not fought in vain."
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