A SOLDIER OF THE 6TH DIVISION Incorporating Recollections of The Machine Gun Corps

A Soldier of the 6th Division is the memoir of a young machine-gunner through the last year of the Great War accompanied by a detailed account of his actions in the context of the great battles he fought in, from Cambrai to the occupation of the Rhineland.
Tom Brookbank was in the thick of the First World War. This is a lively and exciting personal memoir of a machine gunner in the Great War who must have counted himself lucky to have survived.
Extensively researched, “A Soldier of the 6th Division” accurately establishes the experiences and actions of Tom Brookbank. With every detail examined, including Tom’s company, section and, indeed, the actual gun that he operated, Michael Brookbank takes us on a journey through Tom’s war.