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Douglas Herbert Bell
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'It is really remarkable how oblivious we are to what is going on overseas. There is very little in the papers about the British Army, even if we had time to read them, and, anyway, we are too self-centred and interested in our job to worry much about the War.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Douglas Herbert Bell Print: Newspaper
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'Back to the front line, taking over a stretch of our own, which shows the Staff trusts us ... Some papers came by post - just what I want here.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Douglas Herbert Bell Print: Newspaper
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'Made a very successful raisin rice pudding over a charcoal brazier. This is War; a straw-strewn barn, heaps of periodicals, a glowing brazier, puddings, and plenty.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Douglas Herbert Bell Print: Serial / periodical
: [Address by the Bishop of London at Guildhall, 1914]
'A mail arrived after dusk. Someone sent me the Bishop's address at the Guildhall, and I read it out to those around, at their request.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Douglas Herbert Bell Print: Unknown
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'There is a Brigade Order out about the show on the 19th. In it we read that it was supposed to pin German troops to this front to prevent them from fighting the Russians. On the other hand, the official communique (known as Comic Cuts) dismisses the whole thing in two lines. Can't help thinking Comic Cuts has a better sense of values.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Douglas Herbert Bell Print: Unknown
: [Army Communique]
'There is a Brigade Order out about the show on the 19th. In it we read that it was supposed to pin German troops to this front to prevent them from fighting the Russians. On the other hand, the official communique (known as Comic Cuts) dismisses the whole thing in two lines. Can't help thinking Comic Cuts has a better sense of values.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Douglas Herbert Bell Print: Serial / periodical
Rudyard Kipling :
'Talking of slang, the Tommies' name for England is "Blighty". This puzzled me for a bit, till I remembered one of Kipling's stories in which [italics]"Belait"[end italics] occurs as a Hindustanee word for Europe. I suppose they brought it from India.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Douglas Herbert Bell Print: Book
George William Russell : "Shadows and Lights"
'I have just come across these lines by A. E., which I like, because the stars are your only companions on sentry duty in the trenches; and they seem filled with majesty and peace, as does the sunrise too [quotes stanza five of A. E.'s poem "Shadows and Lights"].'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Douglas Herbert Bell Print: Unknown
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'Glorious day, warm sun. It is funny to sit here quietly chatting and reading with a peaceful view behind over field and wood, when if you move two feet you are as good as dead. A pied wagtail keeps running about in front, heedless of the cracking bullets.'
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