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Title: One Young Man
The simple and true story of a clerk who enlisted in 1914, who fought on the western front for nearly two years, was severely wounded at the battle of the Somme, and is now on his way back to his desk.

Editor: Sir John Ernest Hodder-Williams

Release Date: March 4, 2006 [eBook #17918]

Language: English

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ONE YOUNG MAN

Published in 1917 by Hodder & Stoughton Ltd.

_The simple and true story of a clerk who
enlisted in 1914, who fought on the Western
Front for nearly two years, was severely
wounded at the Battle of the Somme, and
is now on his way back to his desk_

Edited by

SIR ERNEST HODDER-WILLIAMS, C.V.O.,

Author of
"The Life of Sir George Williams."

Printed for private circulation
Printed in Great Britain by
C. F. Roworth Ltd., 88 Fetter Lane, London, E.C.4

TO THE GREATLY BELOVED MEMORY

OF

ONE YOUNG MAN

WHO FOUNDED THE Y.M.C.A.

MY UNCLE

SIR GEORGE WILLIAMS

FOREWORD

I am glad that this very personal little book is to be re-published,
if only for private circulation, for it rings as true to-day as it did
yesterday.

It tells the story of one young man in the Great War, but, in fact, it
reveals no less the personality of the writer who knit the young man's
story together.

The young man continues--the writer has passed on.

My brother is revealed here, not as the famous publisher, but as a man
whose sympathy was so quick and passionate that he literally lived the
suffering and trial