Edgar Wallace 
Smithy Abroad [EPUB ebook] 
Barrack Room Sketches

Between 1904 and 1918, Wallace collected tales about life in the British Army and the escapades and adventures of the troops. These led him to create the eponymous character, ‘Smithy.’The second book in the series ‘Smithy Abroad’ sees the eponymous soldier and his two mates, Nobby Clark and Spud Murphy, trying to scheme, connive, and bluff their way out of anything resembling hard graft. However, their plans have a tendency to backfire… A light-hearted and sometimes zany read for fans of humorous historical fiction.