Hugh B C Pollard

Hugh Pollard was typical of a brand of British firearms expert who wrote books on guns and shooting in the early 20th century. Educated and well-to-do, a veteran of World War I and various colonial police actions of the Empire, and an agent of British intelligence, Pollard had the opportunity to shoot lots of guns under different combat conditions, and he had the expertise to later evaluate them in a number of highly readable books.

Hugh Pollard was typical of a brand of British firearms expert who wrote books on guns and shooting in the early 20th century. Educated and well-to-do, a veteran of World War I and various colonial police actions of the Empire, and an agent of British intelligence, Pollard had the opportunity to shoot lots of guns under different combat conditions, and he had the expertise to later evaluate them in a number of highly readable books. See less