Evidence: | 'I was reading in the headquarters shelter when the great man [the Brigadier-General] suddenly drew aside the sacking of the entrance, and gleamed stupendously in our candlelight, followed by an almost equally menacing Staff Captain.' |
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Century: | 1900-1945 | ||||||||||
Date: | Between May 1916 and Jun 1916 | ||||||||||
Country: | France | ||||||||||
Time: | evening night |
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Place: | city: Festubert, near Béthune county: Nord other location: Battalion HQ dugout in Cover Trench |
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Type of Experience (Listener): |
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Reader: | Edmund Blunden |
Age | Adult (18-100+) |
Gender | Male |
Date of Birth | 1 Nov 1896 |
Socio-economic group: | Professional / academic / merchant / farmer |
Occupation: | Army Officer and Poet |
Religion: | Christian (Anglican) |
Country of origin: | England |
Country of experience: | France |
Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
n/a |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Author: | unknown unknown |
Title: | unknown |
Genre: | Unknown |
Form of Text: | Print: Book |
Publication details: | n/a |
Provenance: | unknown |
Record ID: | 29857 | |
Source - | ||
Author: | Edmund Blunden | |
Editor: | n/a | |
Title: | Undertones of War | |
Place of Publication: | Harmondsworth (Penguin Modern Classics edn.) | |
Date of Publication: | 1982 (1928, 1937) | |
Vol: | n/a | |
Page: | 30 | |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Citation: | Edmund Blunden, Undertones of War (Harmondsworth (Penguin Modern Classics edn.), 1982 (1928, 1937)), p. 30, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=29857, accessed: 26 April 2024 |
Internal evidence shows this experience occurred after dark. |
Reading Experience Database version 2.0. Page updated: 27th Apr 2016 3:15pm (GMT)