Submarines
The German Dug-out
The Lusitania
Bryden, Walter M.
In 1916 held the rank of Sergeant. He appears to have survived the war.
The Catechism of the Kit
Burnet, W. Hodgson (b. 1873)
The author of a number of humorous books.
Requisitional
Bynner, Witter (1881–1968)
American poet and man of letters.
The True Pacifist
Cannan, May Wedderburn (1893–1973)
Enrolled in the VAD, 1911; served briefly at Rouen; returned to Oxford as part of the government’s War Propaganda Bureau; joined MI5 in Paris, 1918; was engaged to Bevil Quiller-Couch, son of ‘Q’, who survived the war but died in 1919 from influenza while serving with the Army of Occupation in Germany.
English Leave
For a Girl
Perfect Epilogue
The Armistice
Cappe, Lucas
A Song
Carpenter, Edward (1844–1929)
A writer associated with the arts and crafts movement and social reform. A friend of Siegfried Sassoon, he was part of the pacifist group that gathered round Lady Ottoline Morrell. His book The Intermediate Sex (1908) was a ground-breaking study of homosexuality.
Lieutenant Tattoon, M.C.
Carstairs, Carroll (1888–1948)
An American, he claimed to be Canadian and served in the Royal Artillery and Grenadier Guards; Lieutenant; severely wounded in November 1918. The author of A Generation Missing (1930).
Life and Death
Chadwick, J.C.
The Wood
Chance, Wade
A Father at the Grave of his Son
Chapman, John Jay (1862–1933)
American-born lawyer and author.
To a Dog
Choyce, A.N.
In December 1918 he was a Lieutenant and being treated for wounds in Heywood Auxiliary Hospital.
My Pal and I
Churchill, John Strange Spencer, known as Jack (1880–1947)
Younger brother of Winston Churchill. As a Major TA Reserve (later Oxfordshire Yeomenry) he served in the South African War 1899–1900. In the First World War he served in Gallipoli and France; mentioned in dispatches.
Y Beach
Clarke, E.F.
Contributor to Punch.
The Infantryman
Clayton, T.
Poet who contributed to the Accrington Observer and Times.
Leave your Change
[There are tear-dimmed eyes in the town today]
Where are the Russians?
Clifford, C.
In Memory of Kaiser Bill (The Butcher)
Cobb, Walter H.
After the war he became an illustrator of children’s books.
The Armoured(illo) Train
The German Herr
The Newt-ral
The Sentrypede
The Skunk
The Sloth
Corbett, N.M.F.
In 1916 held the rank of Lieutenant-Commander, RN.
The Auxiliary Cruiser
The Sailing of the Fleet
Coulson, Leslie (1889–1916)
Enlisted in the ranks of 2nd Bttn, London Regt (Royal Fusiliers), September 1914; served in Gallipoli, where he was slightly wounded; in hospital in Egypt; transferred to France; attached to the 12th Bttn, London Regt (The Rangers); promoted Sergeant and took part in the Battle of the Somme; shot, 7 October 1916 and died the following day. He is buried at Grove Town Cemetery, Meaulte.
From the Somme
When I Come Home
Cranmer, Elsie Paterson
The Dead Hero
Cutler, Stuart
Lieutenant, 23rd US Infantry, AEF.
Somewhere in France (1)
Dawson, George C.
Sergeant, 19th Railway Engineers, AEF.
To the Recruitin’ Sergeant
de Stein, Edward Sinauer (1887–1965)
Enlisted before the war in the Oxford OTC; to France as Captain July 1915; transferred to the Machine Gun Corps, October 1915; promoted Major in the King’s Royal Rifle Corps (60th Rifles), 1918. Knighted in 1946.
Joseph Arthur Brown
The Romance of Place-Names
The Sacred Documents
The Turn of the Tide
Dearmer, Geoffrey (1893–1996)
Enlisted at the outbreak of war; commissioned into the 2nd Bttn, London Regt (Royal Fusiliers), September 1914; served in Egypt, Gallipoli and France. Edited BBC radio Children’s Hour, 1939– 59. The last surviving of the First World War poets.
Gommecourt
Mudros after the Evacuation
Dennys, Joyce (1893–1991)
Illustrator. Served as a VAD in Cornwall 1915–16.
Concert
[Pansy ran a knitting party]
Dobell, Eva (1867–1963)
Volunteered as a nurse; corresponded with prisoners of war. A published poet before the war, she produced five further volumes of verse afterwards.
The Band
Dowsing, William
Known as William Dowsing of Sheffield, he was the author of books of sonnets, including six volumes inspired by Louis Raemaerker’s war cartoons.
The Kaiser’s Cry for Peace
Drinkwater, John (1882–1937)
Georgian poet, dramatist and biographer.
England to Belgium
Eastman, Max (1883–1969)
The American socialist writer who in 1913 was appointed editor of The Masses, a journal whose frequent denunciations of American involvement in the war led to its closure under the Espionage Act in 1918.
The Battle-fields
Elton, Godfrey (1892–1973)
Commissioned into 4th Hampshire Regt, 1914; wounded and captured at Kut-al-Amara; prisoner of war in Turkey, 1915–18; promoted Captain, 1918. Fellow and lecturer in Modern History at Queen’s College Oxford 1919–39; created 1st Baron Elton, 1934.
The War Memorial
Ewer, William Norman (1885–1976)
A Fabian Socialist and left-wing journalist, he is alleged to have spied for the Soviet Union in the 1920s, although his later writing took an anti-Soviet line.
Christmas Truce
Cousins German
The Only Way
To any Diplomatist
To any Pacifist
War Aims
ffrench, [first name unknown]
Captain, Royal Air Force.
[Here in the eye of the sun]
Fish, Wallace Wilfrid Blair (1889–1968)
Contributor to Punch, 1908–17, he was a playwright, poet, journalist and publisher.
On Christmas Leave
Fletcher, John Gould (1886–1950)
American-born Imagists poet, resident in London, 1916–33.
The Last Rally
Fox-Smith, C. (1882–1954)
Poet and children’s writer.
The Call
Foxcroft, Charles T. (1868–1929)
In 1900, during the South African War, he was commissioned into the 1st Somerset Volunteers; came out in 1904 with the rank of Captain. In 1914 he was gazetted Captain in the 2nd/4th Somerset Regt; invalided out in 1916. He was an MP for Bath, October 1918–December 1929.
A Veteran’s View
Retreat
‘Si Monumentum requiris’
Travail
Frankau, Gilbert (1884–1952)
Commissioned into the 9th Bttn, East Surrey Regt, October 1914; transferred to RFA, March 1915; fought at Loos, Ypres and on the Somme; Staff Captain in Italy working on counter-propaganda, October 1916; invalided out with shell-shock, February 1918. Later an author; served in the RAF Volunteer Reserve in the Second World War; Squadron Leader, 1940; invalided out, 1951.
Eyes in the Air
Gun-Teams
Headquarters
Only an Officer
Poison
T
he Other Side
The Reason
Unknown
Urgent or Ordinary
Wails to the Mail
French, F.H.
Victory Assured!
Freston, Hugh Reginald (Rex) (1891–1916)
Commissioned into the 3rd Royal Berkshire Regt (Special Reserve of Officers) in April 1915; to France, December 1915; killed, 24 January 1916. Buried at Becourt Military Cemetery, Becordel-Becourt.
To A.M.
Fyson, Geoffrey F.
The Survivors
To a Pacifist
Gellert, Leon (1892–1977)
As part of the 10th Bttn, AIF, he took part in the first landings at Gallipoli; he was discharged as medically unfit, June 1916. After the war was a poet and journalist, and Literary Editor and feature writer for the Sydney Morning Herald, 1942–61.
Anzac Cove
The Cripple
Gibson, Wilfrid Wilson (1878–1962)
Georgian poet; volunteered, 1915; rejected with poor eyesight; accepted in the RASC, 1917 but did not
serve abroad.
Bacchanal
Between the Lines
Mad
Ragtime
The Messages
Girling, T.A. (1876–1919)
Captain, Canadian Army Veterinary Corps. He died while still on Active Service on 1 March 1919 and is buried in Belgrade Cemetery, near Namur in Belgium.
Dumb Heroes
Glasgow, Geraldine Robertson
A prolific story writer.
Missing
Goddard, Leslie M.
To a V.A.D. from a V.A.D.
Godfrey-Turner, L.
Cricket Field or Battle Field?
Golding, Louis (1895–1958)
At the outbreak of war attempted to join the OTC but was rejected on medical grounds; served as a hospital orderly in the Fifth Canadian Hospital in Salonika. After the war was a novelist, essayist and travel writer.
During the Battle
Evening – Kent
German Boy
Statesmen Debonair
The New Trade
The Woman who Shrieked against Peace
Gordon, Hampden (1885–1960)
Went to work in the War Office in 1908, where he was throughout the war. The author of a number of illustrated and children’s books, he remained a career Civil Servant.
Concert
Letters Home
[Patsy ran a Knitting Party]
[The Flag-Day Girl is dressed in white]
[The Women’s Volunteer Reserve]
Gorell Barnes, Ronald (1884–1963)
Before the war he was on the editorial staff of The Times. Captain and Adjutant, 7th Bttn. The Rifle Brigade, 1916, MC 1917, Major, General Staff, 1918, when he was appointed Deputy Director of Staff Duties (Education) at the War Office; founded the Royal Army Education Corps. He succeeded his brother as Lord Gorell, 1917.
Ypres
Graves, C.L. (1856–1944)
Joined the Staff of Punch in 1902, assistant editor, 1928–36. With E.V. Lucas translated H.G. Puzzuoli’s The War of the Wenuses (1898).
Beasts and Superbeasts
The Freedom of the Press
The Missing Leader
Winston’s Last Phase
Grindlay, I.
3617, QMAAC.
Khaki
Route March Sentiments
Guppy, Alfred Leslie (1887–1917)
Company QMS with the 14th AIF in Gallipoli and France; reported missing April 1917; confirmed as German POW June 1917.
Evacuation of Gallipoli
Hall, Ralph J.
Corporal, Company B, 101st Mounted Police, AEF.
Slacker, Think it Over!
Hamund, St John (d. 1929)
Before the war, he was an actor with Shakespeare Theatre, Liverpool.
The Armoured(illo) Train
The German Herr
The Newt-ral
The Sentrypede
The Skunk
The Sloth
Hancock, Augusta
Contributor to The Lady.
The Women
These Little Ones!
Hannan, Thomas
A British Boy
Harkins, J.M.
A member of the AIF, he appears to have survived the war.
The Chats’ Parade
Harris, Dudley H.
Cadet, Tank Corps; he appears to have survived the war.
Left Alone
Harvey, Frederick William (1888–1957)
Enlisted as Private in the Gloucestershire Regt, 1915; Lance-Corporal, 1915; won DCM during a reconnaissance raid, August 1915; commissioned, 1915; captured during solo daylight raid on German lines, August 1916; spent the rest of the war in captivity.
A True Tale of the Listening Post
At Afternoon Tea
Back to the Trenches
Ballad of Army Pay
Gonnehem
Loneliness
Peace – The Dead Speak
Requiescat
The Route March
To Certain Persons
To the Kaiser – Confidentially
Harwood, Henry Cecil (1893–1964)
Lieutenant in 1916. Was called to the Bar in 1922, and became a journalist.
From the Youth of all Nations
Head, Henry (1861–1940)
A distinguished neurologist and Fellow and Vice-President of the Royal Society, he worked with William Rivers, the psychiatrist, with whom he published Studies in Neurology in 1922. Virginia Woolf was a patient. He was knighted in 1927.
Destroyers
Hennesley, Edmund
Sergeant, Honourable Artillery Company; he appears to have survived the war.
A Day in Spring
Herbert, Alan Patrick (1890–1971)
Enlisted 1914 as Ordinary Seaman in the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve; commissioned as Sub-Lieutenant, March 1915; served in the Royal Naval Division (Hawk Bttn) in Gallipoli and France; mentioned in dispatches; severely wounded and invalided out, April 1917; promoted Lieutenant, September 1917 and served on staff of HMS President. After the war, became an MP and a distinguished writer.
After the Battle
Beaucourt Revisited
Eye-wash
Open Warfare
The Deserters
The Draft
The German Graves
The Green Estaminet
The Tide
To James
Twitting the Turk
Zero!
Heywood, Raymond
In 1918 held the rank of Lieutenant, Devonshire Regt. He published two volumes of poems.
At Stand Down
Before Battle
On Patrol
Hill, Brian
In 1917 held the rank of 2nd Lieutenant, Durham Light Infantry.
Salonika in November
Hodgkinson, T.
Contributor to Punch.
A Literary War Worker
Hogben, John
Scottish author of several volumes of poetry written before and after the war.
Below
Somewhere in France (2)
Holmes, William Kersley (b. 1882)
In 1915 held the rank of Captain in the Royal Field Artillery. He wrote a number of volumes of poetry, and was a Scottish writer for children, adapting fairy stories.
Horse-Bathing Parade
Letters to Tommy
My Beautiful
Singing ‘Tipperary’
The Barrack Room
The Camp in the Sands
The Inspection
The Squadron Takes the Ford
Ingamells, H.
Mine Sweepers
Jenkins, Elinor (1893–1920)
The House by the Highway
The Last Evening
Keigwin, Richard Prescott (1883–1972)
Lieutenant in the RNVR; present at the surrender of the German fleet. Before the war he played hockey for England
, cricket for the MCC and tennis for Gloucestershire, as well as being a Cambridge blue in cricket, football, hockey and rackets. After the war he became a schoolmaster.
The Four Sea Lords
Kennedy, Revd Geoffrey Anketell Studdert (1883–1929)
‘Woodbine Willie’. Enlisted as army chaplain, December 1915; in the trenches on the Somme, 1916, Messines Ridge, 1917 and final advance, 1918; MC 1917; described his ministry as taking ‘a box of fags in your haversack, and a great deal of love in your heart’.
Walking Wounded
Waste
Kerr, Roderick Watson (1895–1960)
Before the war was leader writer and reviewer on the staff of The Scotsman. 2nd Lieutenant and later Lieutenant, the Tank Corps, 1916–19; severely wounded and awarded MC during the German attack of March 1918. After the war he returned to journalism.
A Vignette
From the Line
Music in a Dug-out
Rain
Sounds by Night
Wounded
Knight-Adkin, James H.
Nothing is known about him, but he appears to have survived the war.
No Man’s Land
Knox, Edmund Gregory Valpy (1881–1971)
Worked under the pseudonym ‘Evoe’. Commissioned into the Lincolnshire Regt, 1914; wounded at Third Battle of Ypres (Passchendaele, 1917). Editor of Punch, 1932–49.
Mufti Once More
Laing, Allan M.
Imprisoned for a year as a conscientious objector in Wormwood Scrubs.
I Lived a Year in London
Large, D.
Private with the Army Service Corps in Rouen.
On Leave
Lawson, Henry Archibald Hertzberg (1867–1922)
Australian poet and short-story writer.
Fighting Hard
Lee, Joseph (1876–1949)
Enlisted as Private in the Black Watch, 1914; to France, February 1915; reached rank of Sergeant; commissioned, August 1917 into the King’s Royal Rifle Corps (60th Rifles); captured, November 1917 and spent rest of the war in prison in Germany. After the war he returned to being an artist.
Carrying-Party
Macfarlane’s Dug-out
Stand-to!
The Billet
The Bullet
The Mouth-Organ
The Penitent
Tommy and Fritz
Leslie, Will
Private, Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders; he appears to have survived the war.
A Letter from Home
Gallipoli – In Memoriam
Letts, Winifred M. (1882–1971)
Served from 1915 as VAD nurse. An Irish playwright and children’s author, she contributed to a number of journals, including Punch and the Spectator.
A Sister in a Military Hospital
Pro Patria
The Call to Arms
Levey, Sivori (b. 1879)
Lieutenant, 13th West Yorkshire Regt. Before the war he was an established writer of popular songs and verses; his final book, a study of the songs in Shakespeare’s plays, was published in 1924.