As a tribute to those who served during the years 1914-1918 - on the Home Front or at Front Line - Commando has produced a series of stories of characters caught up in the tumult of the First World War. None of them are real people but we'd like to think that the experiences they have will not be a million miles from what actually happened to so many.
Last month, tanks and flamethrowers were the perils our heroes faced. Now it is the very ground itself - from the mud to the ridge which dominated the battlefield. Added to this the Germans introduced shock troops - the Stormtroopers - who wrought havoc wherever they fought.
I hope you enjoy this and the other stories in the series as much as we have.
Calum Laird, Commando Editor
On the morning of the 28 June 1914 two pistol shots fired in a Sarajevo street had plunged the world into war and pitched men of all nations against one another.
Three years later, more and more soldiers were being dragged into the churning stalemate of the Western Front. Men from half a world away from France came to fight over her muddy battlefields,
This is the story of one of them, Canadian Rick Strang.
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