Bill Kermode(1895-1959) arrived in London from Tasmania in 1911 and volunteered for the British Army, fighting with distinction and was awarded the Military Cross. In the Twenties he had been drawn to printmaking, and lino cuts in particular (contact with Claude Flight). He asked the editor of London Mercury J.C.Squire to arrange a writer to produce texts for his prints of wartime experiences. Hence the involvement of Henry Williamson who had also fought in the War. Images and words are a chilling and moving account of how hostilities affected the individual from enlistment to the return home.