Contemporaneous inscription: "I.V. Scowley, April 1919."

The poet’s first work published in book form, largely war poetry.

Ed. at Rugby & Oriel College, Oxford, served with 6th DLI from 1914 until taken PoW in May 1918. He had previously been wounded & won “what soldiers call ‘a good MC.’“ During 1915 he was adjutant for several months & later commanded a company.