author
James Belton
b. 1875
A First World War officer remembered for a direct, unsentimental account of combat, he co-wrote a vivid memoir of the fighting around Vimy Ridge. The surviving record is thin, but his book still stands out for its plainspoken immediacy.
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Hunting the Hun
by James Belton, E. G. Odell
About the author
James Belton is known chiefly as the co-author of Hunting the Hun (1918), written with Lieutenant E. G. Odell. Project Gutenberg lists him as an author, and the book was published during the First World War era.
From the sources I could confirm, Belton was identified as Captain James Belton, and his reputation rests on this wartime memoir rather than on a large body of published work. The book is valued for its straightforward, firsthand tone and its picture of soldiers preparing for and carrying out major action on the Western Front, especially around Vimy Ridge.
I wasn't able to confirm solid biographical details such as his full life dates, birthplace, or a broader literary career from reliable sources available here, so it is best to treat him as a somewhat obscure figure whose place in print survives through this one notable collaboration.