The veterans in this book served in the Royal Navy, Army and Royal Air Force plus the ATS. They all joined after the outbreak of war, they all wanted to do something for their country, at a time in our history referred to by Winston Churchill as – Our Darkest Hour.
It was a photoshoot that photographer & writer Matt Limb had long wanted to undertake. To be in the Scottish Highlands with a ghillie, deer stalking. But not just any ghillie. This ghillie had to work traditionally, using trained Highland Ponies to bring the stags and hinds off the hill.
This book came about by pure coincidence after Matt was watching The Cranwell Bloodhounds in the show ring at the Peterborough Festival of Hunting when he enquired if they would be willing to allow him to photograph them out hunting during the coming season. In just a few weeks Matt made it to his first-ever bloodhound’s meet on a bright summer’s afternoon, as he watched the bloodhounds chase their quarry, which is a cross country runner.