[nopardons]

No, I disagree with you. It was NOT English English at all. Read MadIvan's posts.

I tend to sometimes write and spell more like a Brit than an American ( I'm very susceptible to what I read and hear and then, unconsciously copy it and I read far more books written by English people, than Americans; always have done. ) and this screed had NO English overtones whatsoever.

[King Prout]

I had thought I checked very carefully for any iteration of words with clear Anglo-American variants (colour/color, defence/defense, etc...) and found none.

do you see any such?

[Iris7]

Agree.

It is like Cary Grant doing a British accent.

Also the thing sounds wrong, not a combat soldier writing this thing. The concatenation of Lefty cliches, the holding the dying squadie's hand while taking cover in the ditch while the lad calls for his mother. Oh, please.

Fantasy.

[Army Air Corps]

I agree with your assessment. The writing struck me as an attempt at writing as an Englishman, but the prose does not conform well to BSE.