Before Action - A Poet on the Western Front: William Noel Hodgson and the 9th Devons

by Charlotte Zeepvat

The Great War may have made Hodgson's reputation as a poet but it also killed him. Like so many of his generation he was an unlikely soldier and this first groundbreaking biography explores his early life and his reasons for abandoning it and volunteering for the Army. Today Hodgson is remembered as one of the ill-fated 9th Battalion The Devonshire Regiment whose fate in the opening moments of the Battle of the Somme has become one of the emblematic...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1783463759
• ISBN13: 9781783463756
• Release Date: February 2015
• Publisher: Pen & Sword Military
• Length: 256 Pages