Active-Service Diary - 21 January 1917-1 July 1917

The short, but poignant and action filled diary of a public school officer who fought with the Irish Guards in the Ypres Salient. EDWARD HORNBY SHEARS was born in Liverpool On December 4, 1890. His preparatory school was The Leas, Hoylake (1900-1904). In July, 1904, he obtained a Foundation Scholarship at Bradfield, and in December 1908 a History Exhibition at Trinity College, Oxford. He went up to Oxford in October, 1909, and obtained a 'second' in 'Mods' in 1910, and a 'first' in 'Greats' in 1