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Wyndham Deedes. Brigadier General Sir Wyndham Henry Deedes,[1] CMG, DSO[2](10 March 1883 – 2 September 1956)[3] was a British Army officer and civil administrator. He was the Chief secretary to the British High Commissioner of the British Mandate of Palestine. Early life[edit] Military career[edit] After the war he was posted to Istanbul, Turkey, as a military attaché. From 1920 to 1922, Deedes served as chief secretary to the then British High Commissioner Sir Herbert Samuel in Palestine.[17] Palestine was then under British mandate following the League of Nations decision in 1920 to hand it over to British control from 1923 onwards.

Later life[edit] Upon returning to England, Deedes did not take up his heritage as a country squire, but moved to London and chose to do unpaid social work in one of the poorest quarters of the city.[5] Between 1931 and the end of World War II in 1945, he shared a house in Bethnal Green with his nephew William Deedes. Personal life[edit] Translations[edit] Reşat Nuri Güntekin. Literary Connections: The First World War in Literature - materials for AQA A Level English Literature (LTA6 and new AS) "Prose and Poetry" web sites. WW1 Poems. Robert Laurence Binyon For the Fallen (1914) William Noel Hodgson Before Action (1916) Ewart Alan Mackintosh, MC In Memoriam (1916) Inspiration for In Memoriam John McCrae In Flanders Fields (1915) Inspiration for In Flanders Fields Moina Michael We Shall Keep the Faith (1918) Inspiration for We Shall Keep the Faith John William Streets Further Reading The Penguin Book of First World War Poetry (Paperback) Published by Penguin Classics (26 Oct 2006). 448 pages.

In Flanders Fields: The Story of the Poem (Illustrated paperback) by Linda Granfield, Janet Wilson (author, illustrator), John McCrae (author) Published by Stoddart Publishing, Canada (new edition 13 Sep 2000). 32 pages. Violets from Oversea: Portraits of Poets of the Great War by Tonie Holt and Valmai Holt An illustrated collection of poetry from the First World War, which includes biographical details of the poets in addition to examples of their work. A Deep Cry: First World War Soldier-poets Killed in France and Flanders by Anne Powell. War Poetry: Ted Hughes: 'Bayonet Charge' I have already said my piece about the AQA GCSE poetry syllabus and what it calls the 'Conflict' cluster. (I take 'cluster' to be the AQA's decorous abbreviation of a more accurate military term which, alas, cannot be used on a family-friendly blog.) Now I will do my best to help those unfortunates brought to this site in search of information about one particular poem: Ted Hughes's 'Bayonet Charge'.

What follows is a set of loose notes. Anyone inclined to explore Hughes's treatment of war more generally can read my essay on that very subject here. 1. 'Bayonet Charge' was published in Hughes's first collection, The Hawk in the Rain (1957). 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. Hughes wrote far better poems than 'Bayonet Charge'. Postscript: for an account of Jane Weir's 'Poppies', see here. AQA - Anthology Zone - Wilfred Owen. Pre 1914 war poems podcasts. AQA Lit War poetry imagery and rhythm.

AQA Lit War poetry imagery and rhythm. World war 1. History: World War One. A Multimedia History of World War One. The Great War. X Lighters - the Black Beetles. Europe_1914.jpg 1,200×928 pixels. :: CWGC :: The Battle of the Somme. The Battles of the Somme 1916. Australian War Memorial - First World War Official Histories. < Previous | Next > Digitised records > First World War Official Histories | Second World War Official Histories The Official History of Australia in the War of 1914–1918 is a 12-volume series covering Australia’s involvement in the First World War. The series was edited by the official historian Charles Bean, who also wrote six of the volumes, and was published between 1920 and 1942. The books, with their familiar covers, “the colour of dried blood” in the words of one reviewer, rapidly became highly regarded internationally. Bean’s work established the tradition and set the standard for all subsequent Australian official war histories.

Official History of Australia in the War of 1914–1918 Official History of the Australian Army Medical Services, 1914–1918 Supplementary material Bean working on files during the writing of the First World War official history. 30th Battalion: Australian War Memorial. The 30th Battalion was raised as part of the 8th Brigade at Liverpool in New South Wales on 5 August 1915. Most of its recruits hailed from the Newcastle region and other parts of country New South Wales, but almost an entire company was composed of former RAN ratings from Victoria.

The 8th Brigade joined the newly raised 5th Australian Division in Egypt and proceeded to France, destined for the Western Front, in June 1916. The 30th Battalion’s first major battle was at Fromelles on 19 July 1916. It was tasked with providing carrying parties for supplies and ammunition but was soon drawn into the vicious fighting. In early 1917, the German Army withdrew to the Hindenburg Line. Unlike many AIF battalions, the 30th also had a relatively quiet time during the German Spring Offensive of 1918 as the 5th Division was in reserve for much of the time. Colour Patch Glossary Battle Honours Battle Honours source: Australian Army Orders (112), 1927. Casualties 458 killed, 1207 wounded Decorations. NZ military records. New Zealand database. U.S. World War I Propaganda. All images are digitized | All jpegs/tiffs display outside Library of Congress | View All During World War I, the impact of the poster as a means of communication was greater than at any other time during history.

The ability of posters to inspire, inform, and persuade combined with vibrant design trends in many of the participating countries to produce thousands of interesting visual works. The Library of Congress Prints & Photographs Division makes available online approximately 1,900 posters created between 1914 and 1920. Most relate directly to the war, but some German posters date from the post-war period and illustrate events such as the rise of Bolshevism and Communism, the 1919 General Assembly election and various plebiscites.

The majority of the posters were printed in the United States. Russian WW1 Propaganda Posters. Italian WWI Propaganda. French WWI Propaganda. British WW1 Propaganda. German WWI Propaganda. Austro-Hungarian Empire WWI Propaganda.