author
Arthur Mills
1887–1955
A British novelist and memoirist, he drew on his First World War service to write vivid early books before going on to publish thrillers, short stories, and novels through the 1920s and 1930s.
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With my regiment : From the Aisne to La Bassée
by Arthur Mills
About the author
Born in Cornwall in 1887, Arthur Frederick Hobart Mills came from a notably literary family and was educated at Wellington College and the Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst. He served in the British Army during the First World War and was wounded in action, an experience that shaped some of his earliest writing.
His first books, including With My Regiment from the Aisne to La Bassée and Hospital Days, grew directly out of wartime experience. He later built a broader writing career as a novelist, publishing works such as Ursula Vanet, Pillars of Salt, The Yellow Dragon, and The Gold Cat.
Mills remained a productive English author across the interwar years, writing fiction as well as memoir. He died in Hampshire in 1955.