From the author's preface; << This little book of mine is only an account, more or less in the form of a diary, of what one British soldier saw and felt, who served for eighteen months on the Italian Front as a Subaltern officer in a Siege Battery. But it was my luck to see a good deal during that time. Mine had been the first British Battery to come into action and open fire on the Italian front.>>
Hugh Dalton,Lieutenant, Royal Garrison Artillery.

From the American Libraries Internet Archive files.
Joe

http://www.archive.org/details/withbritishgunsi00dalt

As many people will know later a senior Labour Party politician. Chancellor of the Exchequer after 1945

Thanks Alan.
Joe