The Lower Echelon

The Lower Echelon Review

In the coal mining valleys of South Wales in the 1920s and 1930s, injustices, perpetrated by the mine owners and property owners were rife, and individuals were treated as disposable chattels. In response to many gross injustices, the men of the valleys formed a secret group called 'The Dragon Riders' and prosecuted their own brand of justice. Dai Morgan and his comrades, sons and grandsons of 'The Dragon Riders', carried their inbred sense of good against evil into the Welsh Riflemen and thence, across the world. As soldiers employed in the lower echelons, they were often uninformed about greater political aims, so they formed their own black and white opinions about events as they encountered them. They were men of courage who surmounted life's difficulties with raw humour, large amounts of beer and regularly rode the Dragon, be their exploits killing or sexual.