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Innes Logan
A Scottish minister and wartime chaplain, he wrote with quiet clarity about the everyday lives of soldiers during World War I. His best-known book offers a direct, humane view of military life shaped by faith, hardship, and close observation.
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On the King's Service: Inward Glimpses of Men at Arms
by Innes Logan
About the author
Innes Logan was a Scottish clergyman, identified in contemporary editions of his work as The Rev. Innes Logan, M.A. He served as minister of the United Free Church of Scotland in Braemar, and later published religious writing as well as his wartime reflections.
His best-known book, On the King's Service: Inward Glimpses of Men at Arms (1917), grew out of his service as a chaplain to the forces from September 1914 to May 1916. Rather than focusing on battlefield strategy, the book pays attention to the mood, endurance, humor, and suffering of ordinary soldiers, giving it an intimate and personal tone.
Because so little widely documented biographical material survives online, Logan is remembered mainly through his writing itself. What stands out is the warmth and sympathy of his voice: he wrote not as a distant commentator, but as someone who lived alongside the men he described.