author
E. G. Odell
1886–1929
A Canadian World War I veteran, he helped turn battlefield experience into a direct, first-hand war narrative. His surviving work offers a vivid view of soldiering on the Western Front and the attack on Vimy Ridge.
1 Audiobook
Hunting the Hun
by James Belton, E. G. Odell
About the author
Little is firmly documented about E. G. Odell beyond his book credits, but major library and public-domain records identify him as Ernest Gregory Odell, a Canadian officer and writer active during and just after the First World War.
Odell is best known as the co-author of Hunting the Hun (1918), written with Captain James Belton. Contemporary catalog records describe him as Lieutenant E. G. Odell, formerly of the 24th Canadian Battalion, B.E.F., and the book presents a personal account of wartime service, especially around the Vimy Ridge campaign.
Some records give his birth year as 1887, while the dates supplied here list 1886–1929, so the exact birth year is not fully settled from the sources reviewed. A grave record for Ernest Gregory Odell reports that he died on March 26, 1929 and was buried at Cimetière Mont-Royal in Outremont, Quebec.