Voices of Silence (57 page)

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
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Concert

[Pansy ran a knitting party]

[The Flag-Day girl is dressed in white]

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
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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

The 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
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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
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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
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Dumb Heroes

Glasgow, Geraldine Robertson

A prolific story writer
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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
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Broken Bodies

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
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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)
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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’
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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
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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
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