P. G. Bales

P. G. Bales is known as the author of The History of the 1/4th Battalion, Duke of Wellington’s (West Riding) Regiment, 1914–1919, a regimental history first published in 1920. Available catalog records and archival listings identify him as Captain P. G. Bales, and some describe him as a former adjutant of the battalion.

His book stands out as a detailed record of one British unit’s experience in the First World War, following the battalion through its wartime service and aftermath. Because so little biographical information is easy to confirm from reliable online sources, the strongest picture we have of him is through this work and his connection to the regiment he wrote about.

For listeners interested in military history, Bales’s value lies in that direct link to the events he chronicled. Rather than writing as a distant commentator, he appears to have written from close knowledge of the battalion and its men, helping preserve a piece of wartime history that might otherwise have faded from view.