Excerpt from The Life of Ronald Poulton The immeasurable tragedy of our time demands a treatment of our dear ones different from that which would have been right in past years, the years that seemed so changeless, when each generation looked proudly upon its band of brilliant youths - a full and splendid company in spite of all the inroads of disease and accident. In this generation the War has taken well-nigh all of our best, and future ages will know nothing of what they were and promised to be unless we give them the chance. It is a trust laid upon us alone - no others can do the work - to preserve a record of the young men of our day who, if we do not see to it, will be forgotten because they took the highest line and sacrificed everything they held dear, everything they hoped to achieve, nay, would have achieved. I know well that, while those who loved them are here, their memories will not only be secure but ripen with the passing years, losing something of the sadness but always gaining in glory as they stand out more and more distinctly against the background of history. But what of brothers and sisters too young to remember them? What of the generations unborn? There is comfort in the thought that a true picture, if we can only attain to it, will endure, and that death will then bring an undimmed remembrance rarely granted to life itself. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.