Herman C. McNeile

Born

September 27, 1888 in Bodmin, Cornwall, England, UK

Died

August 14, 1937

Popularity

0.0963

Biography

Herman Cyril McNeile, MC, commonly known as Cyril McNeile and publishing under the name H. C. McNeile or the pseudonym Sapper, was a British soldier and author. Drawing on his experiences in the trenches during the First World War, he started writing short stories and getting them published in the Daily Mail.