Walter Herbert Bowen, known as Bert, starts to keep a diary at the age of 14 in January 1914. The early entries in his Boy Scouts Diary show his preoccupations with scouting and riding his bike. In the build-up to World War I his entries start to reflect the news Bert gathers from the newspapers and the growing tensions in Europe. Along with many other young men he is stirred by the thought of fighting for his country. This, added to the difficult...