F. A. Bolwell

Very little confirmed biographical information about this author is easy to find, but Project Gutenberg identifies F. A. Bolwell as Frederick George Albert Bolwell. The same source lists just one work under his name, suggesting that he is remembered chiefly for a single wartime memoir.

That book, With a Reservist in France, is a personal account of the fighting involving the 1st Division, 1st Corps in the early years of the First World War. In the opening chapter, Bolwell describes being called up on August 4, 1914, and says he was a married man with two children, writing as an old soldier and reservist drawn back into service.

His memoir follows major actions including Mons, the Marne, the Aisne, the First Battle of Ypres, Neuve Chapelle, Festubert, and Loos. With its plain, first-hand perspective and sketch maps by the author, the book offers readers a personal window into how one British soldier experienced the war.