Evidence: | 'Our billet was a chemist's house, well furnished with ledgers and letters strewn about from bureaux, chiefly the scrawl of poor people in Thiepval and other places of the past who bemoaned the bad crops, and their consequent inability to pay up.' |
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Century: | 1900-1945 | ||||||||||
Date: | Between Sep 1916 and Oct 1916 | ||||||||||
Country: | France | ||||||||||
Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
Place: | city: Englebelmer county: Somme other location: chemist's house billet |
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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: | Ephemera |
Form of Text: | Manuscript: Letter |
Publication details: | n/a |
Provenance: | read in situ |
Record ID: | 29859 | |
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: | 102 | |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Citation: | Edmund Blunden, Undertones of War (Harmondsworth (Penguin Modern Classics edn.), 1982 (1928, 1937)), p. 102, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=29859, accessed: 28 March 2024 |
See also RED entry ID 29808 recording reading of Englebelmer parish magazines during this period. |
Reading Experience Database version 2.0. Page updated: 27th Apr 2016 3:15pm (GMT)