My Motor-Bus Conductress
The Duck Board
The Road that Brought me to Roehampton
Littlejohn, William Henry (1891–1917)
CSM. A civil servant in the Exchequer and Audit Dept, before the war he was a Sergeant in the Territorial branch of the Middlesex Regt; served in Gallipoli; killed during the Battle of Arras, 10 April 1917. Buried at Wancourt Bristol Cemetery.
The Hospital Ship
Lyon, Walter Scott Stewart (1886–1915)
Lieutenant. Joined the Royal Scots before the war; to Belgium, February 1915; killed near Ypres, 8 May 1915. His body was never found and his name is on the Menin Gate.
Lines Written in a Fire-Trench
Macaulay, Rose (1881–1958)
Novelist, essayist and poet.
Peace
Macdonald, Nina
[How doth the little busy wife]
MacGill, Patrick (1890–1963)
Enlisted as Private in the 18th London Regt (London Irish Rifles), 1914; promoted to Sergeant; to France, March 1915; wounded at Loos while serving as stretcher-bearer, October 1915; seconded to military intelligence. After the war became a novelist and playwright.
After Loos
[I oft go out at night-time]
In the Morning
The Dawn
Mann, Hamish (1896–1917)
Gazetted 2nd Lieutenant in 8th Bttn Black Watch (Royal Highlanders), July 1915; to France, August 1916; wounded, 9 April 1917 in the Battle of Arras, and died the next day. Buried in Aubigny Communal Cemetery Extension, Aubigny-en-Artois.
The Soldier
Manning, Frederic (1882–1935)
Born in Australia but partly educated in England; enlisted as Private in the King’s Shropshire Light Infantry, 1915; failed officer training course; to France, 1916; served on the Somme; promoted Lance-Corporal; commissioned 2nd Lieutenant in the Royal Irish Regt, May 1917; posted to Ireland; resigned his commission because of ill health, February 1918. In 1929 published a highly praised fictionalised account of his war experiences, The Middle Parts of Fortune, reissued in 1930 as Her Privates We.
Epigram, R. B.
Transport
Marchant, [first name unknown]
Cadet, no. 2 Flying Corps Cadet Wing.
A Perfect Day
Menzies, George Kenneth (1869–1954)
Contributor to Punch. Assistant Secretary and then Secretary to the Royal Society of Arts, 1917–35.
The General
Meugens, M.G.
Prisoners of War
Miles, Patrick
The Victory March
Miller, Alfred
Private, RFA
Mud
Milne, Alan Alexander (1882–1956)
Assistant Editor of Punch 1906–14 and later creator of Winnie-the-Pooh; despite strong pacifist convictions, he volunteered in 1915; was commissioned into the Royal Warwickshire Regt, February 1915; was on the Somme, but was invalided out with trench fever, November 1916, and spent the rest of the war in intelligence.
From a Full Heart
Gold Braid
Mitchell, C.M.
The Widow
Mitchell, Colin (d. 1918)
Volunteered as Rifleman in the 3rd Rifle Bde; to France, early 1915; killed 22 March 1918 during the German spring assault. His body was never found and his name is on the Pozieres Memorial.
Britain’s Daughters
Trampled Clay
Nichols, Robert (1893–1944)
Commissioned into the Royal Field Artillery, October 1914; to France, August 1915; invalided out with shell-shock, August 1916. After the war, became a writer and academic.
Noon
Ogilvie, William Henry (1869–1963)
Went to Australia and lived in the outback, 1889–1901. An author and journalist, he published many books of equestrian poetry.
Canadians
The Offside Leader
Oman, Carola (1897–1978)
Served as Red Cross nurse on the Western Front, 1916–19, and in the Second World War. After the war she became a prolific writer.
Night Duty in the Station
The Menin Road, March 1919
Unloading Ambulance Train
Peterson, John
Private, Seaforth Highlanders. Worked under the pseudonym ‘Private Pat’; he appears to have survived the war.
Arras
R.I.P.
Phillips, Stephen
The Kaiser and Belgium
Physick, Edward Harold (1878–1972)
Worked under the pseudonym ‘E.H. Visiak’. In 1916 he registered as a conscientious objector. After the war he was a novelist, poet and literary critic, known particularly for his work on Milton.
The Pacifist
Platt, F.W.
Contributor to Punch.
Verdun
Plumbe, C. Conway
Contributor to Punch.
A Canadian to his Parents
My American Cousins
Pope, Jessie (1868–1941)
Contributor to many newspapers and magazines, including Punch, and the author of numerous children’s books. Wilfred Owen’s strong dislike of her often thoughtless patriotic verse led him ironically to dedicate his poem ‘Dulce et Decorum est’ to her.
Deportment for Women
Poulten, W. Clifford
Hood Bttn, RND; he appears to have survived the war.
To Belgium
Who Won the War?
Preece, H.J.
To the Followers of Christ among the Belligerent Nations
Priestley, John Boynton (1894–1984)
Volunteered in the Duke of Wellington’s Regt, September 1914; to France, 1915; in the Battle of Loos, September 1915; wounded, 1917 and spent six months in England; commissioned and returned to France; badly gassed and invalided out of active service; transferred to Entertainments Section of the army. After the war, became a prolific novelist and playwright.
A Halt on the March
Rees, G.E.
Telling the Bees
Rhys, Ernest Percival (1859–1946)
He began his working life as a mining engineer, but from 1886 he worked as a literary editor. In 1890 he was a founder member of the Rhymer’s Club, and in 1906, with the publisher J.M. Dent, he founded the Everyman series, with the aim of publishing 1,000 titles, a total that was achieved ten years after his death.
Lost in France
Reid, Mary
Stranraer War Memorial
Roberts, Richard Ellis (1879–1953)
1st Div. Clerk in Admiralty, 1916–18. Journalist, Literary Editor of the New Statesman and of Time and Tide.
The Unemployed
Robertson, Alexander (1882–1916)
Before the war he was lecturer in history at Sheffield University. Corporal. Volunteered as a Private in the 12th (Service) Bttn York and Lancaster Regt. (The Sheffield Pals), September 1914; sailed with the British Mediterranean Expeditionary Force to Egypt, December 1915; to France, March 1916; missing on the Somme, 1 July 1916. His body was never found, and his name is on the Thiepval Memorial.
After Visiting an Asylum
Ryan, J.M.
[Sing us a song of the Northern Seas]
Sackville, Lady Margaret (1881–1963)
Daughter of the 7th Earl de Warr, from 1901 was a prolific writer. She joined the anti-war Union of Democratic Control, 1914; wrote poems denouncing women who supported the war as betrayers of their sons.
Reconciliation
The Return
Victory
Samuels, Louie
Four Words
Sarson, H. Smalley
Private with the Canadian Imperial Force; he appears to have survived the war.
The Armed Liner
The Shell
Saxon, T.A.
Lance-Corporal in the Australian Imperial Force; he appears to have survived the war.
A Dug-out Lament
Scott-Moncrieff, Charles Kenneth (1889–
1930)
Commissioned into the King’s Own Scottish Borderers, August 1914; Captain, 1915; MC, 1917. After the war became famous as the translator of Proust.
Back in Billets
Seaman, Owen (1861–1936)
Contributor to Punch from 1894; editor, 1906–32.
Another ‘Scrap of Paper’
Model Dialogues for Air-Raids
More Peace-Talk in Berlin
‘Punch’ in the Enemy’s Trenches
The Soul of a Nation
Seeger, Alan (1888–1916)
Born in New York; went to live in Paris, 1912; enlisted in the French Foreign Legion; killed on the Somme, 4 July 1916.
On Returning to the Front after Leave
Service, Robert William (1874–1958)
Poet, known as ‘The Canadian Kipling’. Born in Scotland, he was a correspondent for the Toronto Star during the Balkan Wars of 1912–13. Volunteered as an ambulance driver, 1914. After the war he settled in France and was a prolific poet and novelist.
A Song of Winter Weather
Shakespeare, William G. (1890–1975)
Trained at the Westminster Hospital before the war; volunteered for the RAMC in 1914; served in France throughout the war, rising to the rank of Major; after the war he stayed in the RAMC, serving in India and China; he was invalided out in 1943 and went into general practice.
The Refugees
Ypres Cathedral
Shanks, Edward Richard Buxton (1892–1953)
Enlisted in the Artists’ Rifles, 1914; commissioned into the 8th South Lancashire Regt, December 1914; invalided out, April 1915 and served for the rest of the war in the War Office. After the war, returned to being a writer and journalist and was the first winner of the Hawthornden Prize, 1919. Meditation in June, 1917
On Trek
The Old Soldiers
Shirley, J.
A Vision of Blighty
Sitwell, Osbert (1892–1969)
Was commissioned into the Sherwood Rangers, 1911, transferring in 1913 to the Grenadier Guards; part of the original BEF, he finished the war with the rank of Captain and became a man of letters.
Tears
Sprague, Arthur
SSU 649, Convois Automobiles, AEF.
The Crusader
Stewart, J.
Private, 2nd Hampshire Regt.
For the Gallipoli Peninsula
Stewart, John Ebenezer (1889–1918)
Enlisted as Private in the Highland Light Infantry, 1914; commissioned into the Border Regt, 1914; to France, September 1915; fought in the Battle of the Somme and in the Ypres salient; awarded MC, 1917; wounded during the Battle of Messines, June 1917; promoted Captain; transferred to South Staffordshire Regt and commanded 4th Bttn; killed near Kemmell, 26 April 1918. His body was never found and his name is on the Tyne Cot Memorial.
At Thiepval
Before Action
Streets, John William (1885–1916)
Before the war was a Derbyshire miner; enlisted in the 12th (Service) Bttn, York and Lancaster Regt (The Sheffield Pals), 1914; to Egypt, 1915; to France, March 1916; promoted Sergeant; reported wounded and missing, 1 July 1916; officially notified killed, 1 May 1917. His body was never found, and his name is recorded on the Special Memorial at Euston Road Cemetery, Colincamps.
A Soldiers’ Cemetery
At Dawn in France
Comrades
Shelley in the Trenches
Taylor, Ben
Imprisoned as a conscientious objector in Winchester Gaol.
Compensation
Thorold, R.A.
Contributor to Punch.
The Traitor
Tostevin, Earle H.
Sergeant, HQ Company, 164th US Infantry, AEF.
Somewhere
Tripp, D. Howard
Aftermath
Tyrell, Father
From Prison
Walker, F.C.
Contributor to Punch.
To a Bad Correspondent in Camp
Waring, John
The Unknown Warrior
Warren, G.B.
The Battle off Jutland
Waterhouse, Gilbert (d. 1916)
Commissioned into the 2nd Bttn, Essex Regt, May 1915; initially reported missing presumed killed, 1 July 1916, he is buried at Serre Road Cemetery No. 2.
The Casualty Clearing Station
White, Don
Flying Cadet Donald S. White, Aviation Section, AEF.
The Air Raid
To Those Who Wait
Wilkinson, Eric Fitzwalter (1891–1917)
Commissioned 2nd Lieutenant, 8th Bttn, West Yorkshire Regt, October 1914; to France, 1915; awarded MC, July 1915; twice wounded (once gassed); wounded again at Thiepval, 1 July 1916; promoted Captain, February 1917; killed in action, 9 October 1917, during the Third Battle of Ypres (Passchendaele). His body was never found, and his name is on the Tyne Cot Memorial.
To a Choir of Birds
Wilkinson, W.J.
March up to the Colours
Williams, Eliot Crawshay (later Crawshay-Williams) (1879–1962)
Joined the army in 1900 and served in India. Assistant Private Secretary to Winston Churchill in the Colonial Office, 1906–8, and to Lloyd George as Chancellor of the Exchequer, 1910; appointed Lieutenant-Colonel in the Royal Horse Artillery and commanded the 1st Leicestershire RHA in Egypt and Sinai, 1915–17; attached HQ Northern Command, 1918–20. After the war became a novelist and playwright.
A Soldier’s Testament
Socialist
Sonnet of a Son
To the Nations
Willis, George
To my Mate
Wilson, Eugene Edward (1887–1988)
Lieutenant-Commander US Navy. He retired from the US Navy in 1930 with the rank of Commander, and became eminent in naval aviation.
Der Tag
Stories for Our Sons
Wilson, Theodore Percival Cameron (1889–1918)
Enlisted as a Private in the Grenadier Guards, August 1914; commissioned into the 10th Bttn, Sherwood Foresters (Notts and Derby Regt); to Flanders, February 1916; served as Staff Captain with the 51st Brigade, May 1917–January 1918; mentioned in dispatches, 1917; returned to his bttn and was killed during the German offensive on 23 March 1918. His body was never found, and his name is on the Arras Memorial.
On Leave
Wodehouse, Ernest Armine (1879–1936)
In the Scots Guards. Older brother of P.G. Wodehouse. Won the Newdigate Prize in 1902; before the war he was Professor at Deccan College, Poona; after the war he returned to India.
Before Ginchy
Quantum Mutatus
Wolstencroft, C.
The girlfriend of Private Percy Martin of the Accrington Pals.
[Have you seen the Pals, sir?]
Young, E. Hilton (1879–1960)
Was a Lieutenant in the RNVR at the outbreak of war; served at sea and with the Naval guns in Flanders; awarded DSC; promoted to Lieutenant-Commander; fought in the British force against the Bolsheviks, 1919; awarded DSO. After the war, became a politician.
In the Third Year of the War
Return
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