Herbert Charles O’Neill (1879-1953) was a journalist, working variously on the editorial staff of The Daily Mail, as a columnist on The Spectator and Assistant Editor of The Observer. He was also a...view moreHerbert Charles O’Neill (1879-1953) was a journalist, working variously on the editorial staff of The Daily Mail, as a columnist on The Spectator and Assistant Editor of The Observer. He was also an author, specialising in writing military books such as The Royal Fusiliers in the Great War (1922), and some ten books about WW2 under the pseudonym “Strategicus”, a name which he used whilst with The Spectator.view less