Download or read book The Leicestershires beyond Baghdad written by Edward John Thompson and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2019-12-12 with total page 107 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book, titled 'The Leicestershires beyond Baghdad', is a series of writings about World War I as experienced by the author, Edward John Thompson. He served with the 2nd Battalion, Leicestershire Regiment as an army chaplain in Mesopotamia, and his services to the wounded earned him a Military Cross. From this work, he gained a reputation for his prose poetry style of writing.