Excerpt from The Boy With the Guns

My grandson, George William Taylor, a selection from whose Notes and Letters is printed in this little book, was a typical young Englishman, well-grown, well-favoured, manly and debonair. Loving and beloved, happy and with bright prospects opening before him, he lost not a moment in answering his country's call, and for three years and three months bravely and faithfully played the small part assigned to him in the great tragedy of War. He was cut down in the prime of his days, when life is sweetest and death hardest, and rounded off a strenuous and blameless life by a deed of unselfish heroism. His career was short but not incomplete, for though all springtime, it included as much work, well done, as can be performed by most of those who reach the late autumn of life.

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