The Fighting Mascot: The True Story of a Boy Soldier

Excerpt from The Fighting Mascot: The True Story of a Boy SoldierI got to the front trenches all right, but not with a bugle. I carried a gun. I was three years too young for the firing line - just turned Sixteen at my first battler - but the Colonel couldn't stand my bugling any longer.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.