Lage Prijs Valour in the Trenches!. ‘Bombo’ Pollard VC MC* DCM HAC in The Great War – Nash, N.S.

Alfred Pollard joined the Honorable Artillery Company at Armory House in the City of London in 1914 aged 21. The HAC is a unique Territorial unit composed entirely of middle class volunteers, who recruit all their officers from the ranks. Pollard was a natural soldier who believed himself (correctly as it turned out) to be invulnerable. He reveled in combat and unlike the vast majority of his peers claimed to enjoy going into action. This extraordinary mindset is borne out by his well documented acts of sel…