Reflections on the Battlefield: From Infantryman to Chaplain 1914-1919 (Liverpool Historical Studies #19) (Paperback)
When Robert J. Rider died in 1961, he left to his descendants a typescript text, tentatively entitled Flashbacks, which would eventually become Reflections of the Battlefield. Broadly autobiographical, this text offers an account of its author who fought as an infantryman while also serving as a chaplain, thus exposing himself in particular directness, to the ambiguities of chaplaincy service on the battlefield. A further particularity is that Robert J. Rider was in a minority among chaplains, being a Methodist chaplain.